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Hans Holtan Family

Date: 1879
Description: This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo...
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Science Hall

Date: 1929
Description: View across Observatory Drive of east facade of Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Christ Presbyterian Interior

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Christ Presbyterian Church chancel area, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. The new oak choir screen is designed to harmonize with the Byzantine period treatment of the...
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Pugh House

Date: 05 29 1933
Description: View from street towards the residence of Arthur and Sophia Pugh, 107 W. Gorham Street. Bridal wreath spirea bushes bloom around the open front porch, and ...
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Bascom Hall

Date: 10 26 1929
Description: Exterior view of main entrance of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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People Posed in front of G. Bashford Home

Date: 1878
Description: Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th...
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Samuel Barber Home

Date: 1873
Description: The Samuel Barber residence is a frame house with carpenter's lace, porch roof trim, latticework at the bottom of the porch and a picket fence in the foreg...
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Couple Sitting on Porch

Date: 1873
Description: View across yard with tall plants and grass towards a man and woman sitting on a porch behind a latticework railing. The porch has carpenter's lace and a p...
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Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her Two Girls

Date: 1877
Description: Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ...
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Samuel Barber Home

Date: 1873
Description: A man and two women are standing along a fence in the foreground, and another woman is standing on the porch. In the background is Samuel Barber's frame ho...
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Andrew Proudfit House

Date: 1875
Description: Andrew Proudfit house at the corner of Fairchild Street and West Washington Avenue. The steeple and neighboring triangular window belong to the First Bapti...
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Family and Baby in Grass

Date: 1874
Description: Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil...
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Two Women Play Croquet

Date: 1874
Description: Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt...
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Family in Garden

Date: 1874
Description: Family in garden with wood walkway in foreground. Two people are standing on the porch of the brick house behind; the house has shutters around the windows...
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D.W. Bronson and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Probably D.W. Bronson and family. A mounting block cut from a tree stump is in left foreground with carriage and saddle height steps. The family poses in f...
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Knut Knudesen Family

Date: 1869
Description: Knut Knudesen family in yard of large brick house with shuttered windows, stone foundation and trellis at porch.
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William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch.
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Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1938
Description: The sandstone house known as Walker's Castle was located in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. According to newspaper articles, it was built in about 186...
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Buell Home

Date: 1948
Description: The Buell home, built by Charles E. Buell in 1894, which was called "Buell's Folly" locally.
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Italian Village Restaurant

Date: 08 20 1954
Description: Interior of the Italian Village Restaurant, 651 State Street, Joseph Troia, proprietor, "Madison's smartest, most unique, most elaborate restaurant, Duncan...

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