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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Tree Sitters

Date: 07 26 1930
Description: Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t...
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Octagonal House

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Looking West from Barber Shop

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: Larry (9) and Howard (13) Schwartz work at building a snow slide in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street.
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree...

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