Photograph
Allen Adsit with Pitchfork near House
| Allen Adsit stands in the left foreground with a pitch fork and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated to the right. On the left near the house are two grindstones and a well. Women are posing near the porch on the left, and on the steps to the second-story porch on the right. |
| Image ID: | 26659 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1873 |
| Creator Name: | Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923 |
| City: | Deerfield |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Andreas Larsen Dahl photographs, 1870-1880, 1910-1915 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | (D31)275 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4 x 5 inches |
| The house, constructed in 1859 in Section 5, was possibly a stage coach stop in its early days and the two-story addition was used for town meetings chaired by Allen Adsit during his fifteen year tenure as chairman. Stephen and Betsey Adsit left New York State and joined their sons Charles and Martin on land acquired in 1845 in the Town of Deerfield. Their third-born son, Allen, never married, but continued to work the family farm long after his parents died and his brothers moved away to Michigan and Minnesota. Compare with Image IDs 26660 and 27444. Reproduced and described in Davi:d Mandel's Settlers of Dane County: (Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, 1985.) p. 19-20. |
| Agricultural implements |
| Clothing and dress |
| Dresses |
| Hats |
| Dwellings |
| Porches |
| Yards |
| Youth |
| Women |
| Family |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Portraits, Group |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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