Description: |
Large card mounted albumen photograph of family and farm workers on a farm with a large brick Italianate house and barn. Women hold babies and children on the balcony above the front porch. Horse-drawn wagons and carriages are in the driveway and workers hold pitchforks. Wooden braces support newly-planted trees and several pine trees are in the yard.Written on the back is This is the old Swerengen house before the fire / (now Bird Hill / Picture given Frances Rabb by Mr. Charlie Sweringen. The lender stated that her ancestor Frances Morrison Rabb had later lived in the house when it was called Bird Hill. |
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Origin: | 1885, circa |
Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/31CF470D-485F-4666-B0B0-151467974115 |
Collection: |
Indiana Album |
Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Geography: |
Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana, United States|Waverly, Morgan County, Indiana, United States |
Subjects: |
Rabb-Whitley Collection Houses Italianate Farm life Carts & wagons Trees Mooresville (Ind.) Morgan County (Ind.) |
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