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Photograph

Scarecrow

Date: 05 29 1960
Description: A homemade, sack-head scarecrow stands in a small garden.
Photograph

Rowley House

Date: 1940
Description: A foursquare style house with front and back porches sits on a large landscaped lot with a decorative fence and painted pergola. The house, at 220 Eighth S...
Photograph

Garden and Two-Story Frame House

Date: 1930
Description: A spring view of a large garden with tulips and ornamental trees in bloom. There is a bench and trellis in the garden. A two-story frame house with a large...
Photograph

"Place of Hawks"

Date: 1940
Description: An exterior view of August Derleth's home, "Place of Hawks," seen from the garden and partially obscured by trees. The house was built in 1940.
Photograph

Flower Garden Border

Date: 1915
Description: A border of herbaceous perennials with a background of shrubs and trees.
Photograph

Trimpey Studio Article

Date: 08 1925
Description: A brief article describing the new studio of photographer E.B. Trimpey, including photographs of the front and rear of the building. There is a landscaped ...
Postcard

Devi-Dells Cabins

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Description: Colorized postcard view of the exterior view of a motel. A neon sign over the main building. A gas pump is in the drive. Caption reads: "Devi-Dells Cabins,...
Drawing

Bonsai

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Description: Colored ink drawing of a bonsai from The House on the Rock, colored with felt pen in orange, green, brown and yellow. The small tree is sitting in front of...
Drawing

Outdoor Lantern

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Description: Colored ink drawing on paper of a red metal lantern on a stone wall at The House on the Rock. A denuded tree is on the left, on the face of Deep Shelter Ro...
Drawing

Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...
Drawing

Japanese Garden and Lantern

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Description: Black ink line drawing of a Japanese garden and lantern at The House on the Rock, in what appears to be the corner of a room. The drawing features a lanter...
Postcard

Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden." On reverse it reads: "A small corner in our Ginseng Garden, showing our five-year-old plants. From fo...

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