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Photo Gallery One
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Click picture for close up view
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Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo James Wilder were married August 25, 1885 in Dakota Territory by the Reverend E. Brown of the Congregational Church. In the Little House Books Laura recalls their first four years.
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In 1942 "The Scribbler's Club" of Topeka, KS visited Laura at her Rocky Ridge Farm home. One of the members of that club took this picture, had it enlarged, and sent it to Laura and Almanzo. It was kept on the mantel in the living room.
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Young Rose Wilder was photographed in 1890 and years later wrote, "I remember the picture-taking well, was impressed by the photographer's pretense that there was a little bird in the camera.
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As told in THE FIRST FOUR YEARS, Almanzo Wilder presented this clock to his family on Christmas, 1886. It traveled with the Wilders to Mansfield in 1894 and is on display at Rocky Ridge Farm house. Almanzo wound the clock nightly before he retired for the evening.
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In her study in the house on Rocky Ridge Farm near Mansfield, MO, Laura Ingalls Wilder did much of her writing. Her desk is preserved as she left it.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder arranged the upstairs bedroom at Rocky Ridge farm for company. Author Helen Boylston, who wrote the "Sue Barton" career nurse books, used the room from 1928-1931. Laura's sister Carrie was another visitor.
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Author Laura Ingalls Wilder was an enthusiastic homemaker on Rocky Ridge Farm, They cypress stump table was made by Almanzo Wilder for the sunny corner of the family home.
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ON THE WAY HOME describes the lap desk made by Almanzo for Laura. $100 hidden in the desk served as a down payment for the farm near Mansfield.
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The Wilder living room is as Laura left it, carefully preserved as it was in 1957.
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Laura said, "It's the first thing I remember, Pa's playing us to sleep when we were little." "I see it now, though I didn't then -- we never could have gotten through it all without Pa's fiddle." >From "Grandpa's Fiddle" by Rose Wilder Lane. The fiddle is on display in the Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Museum in Mansfield, MO.
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