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Victoria House Lounge

Date: 03 05 1945
Description: Victoria House lounge, 225 Lake Lawn Place.
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Mrs. Kate Gay's Living Room

Date: 12 18 1937
Description: Mrs. Kate (widow of Leonard) Gay's living room, looking north, Apartment 101, Lyon Apartment Building, 330 N. Carroll Street.
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Children and Their Pets

Date: 04 02 1949
Description: Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred...
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Westye Bakke House Living Room

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: Interior view of the Westye Bakke house at 4818 Odana Road (now 4817 Sherwood Road) showing the living room. There is a piano in the right corner. A tree i...
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Living Room of Robert Jewson Residence

Date: 08 30 1949
Description: Mrs. Mary Jewson sitting on a couch next to the fireplace inside the living room of her new residence at 7 Hiawatha Circle. The house is owned by herself a...
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Killian House Living Room

Date: 01 25 1950
Description: View of the living room of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. (Sylvia) Killian, 3814 Hillcrest Drive, including the large picture window framed by dr...
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George Kaeser Residence

Date: 02 06 1950
Description: In the living room, a corner of 120 degree angles make the changing of wall direction gradual rather than abrupt. A bookcase is built into a nook at the ri...
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Drawing Room in Governor's Residence

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: The Stately drawing room is full of shades of green and lilac, repeated in the flowered draperies. Conversation pieces on the mantel and elsewhere about t...
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Porter Butts House

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: Interior view of the Porter Butts house at 2900 Hunter Hill in Shorewood Hills, one of the first "modern" houses in the Madison area, built in 1937. The sa...
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Stewart Douglas House

Date: 11 15 1951
Description: Interior view of living room, including furniture, a television set, and a floor to ceiling window in the home of Stewart and Jean Douglas at 811 Farwell D...
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Stewart Douglas House

Date: 11 15 1951
Description: Interior view of the living room at 811 Farwell Drive, including plants and vines in foreground. Homeowners Jean and Stewart Douglas are sitting and looki...
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Kiser House

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Living room with fireplace and needlepoint chair in the Elliott & Jennie Kiser house on Old Middleton Road near Heim Avenue, built in 1860 by Joseph Heim. ...
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Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: Living room of the C.S. Gonstead home in Mt. Horeb, designed by Madison architect Herbert Fritz, built in 1951, and severely damaged by fire in 1991. The a...
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William G. and Vivian Ragatz Home Interior

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: Vivian Ragatz sitting in the living room of her home at 901 South Midvale Boulevard. The L-shaped room features a fireplace, and wood tones of beige, brown...
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Brides at Home

Date: 06 25 1957
Description: Joanne Peters Rothe sitting in the living room of her home while hemming a drape for a nearby window. The photograph is one of a series showing how newlywe...
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Interior Decorating in Homes

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: Off-white carpeting sets the mood in the living room of Dr. and Mrs. H.L. Greene's home at 201 Del Mar Drive. Walls and draperies are off-white and woodwor...
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Morris Family Library

Date: 09 24 1896
Description: Group portrait of the Morris family in their family library. Mr. and Mrs. Morris sit in two chairs, while their daughter stands in between them behind a ta...
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Sid at Home

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Description: Sid sitting in a chair at home with his chin in his hand and a cigar in his mouth. A statue of a walrus and a bookcase full of books is in the background.
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Gately's Furniture Company Displays

Date: 09 27 1954
Description: Living-room furniture display at Gately's Furniture Company located at 5005 West Beltline Highway.
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...

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