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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Courtyard at Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. The house has a stone first floor, a balcony on ea... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, de... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin writer August Derleth, wearing a boldly patterned sweater and sitting with an unidentified group on a lawn in front of a house. Probably friends ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Awnings shade the windows of the three-story stone Richardsonian Romanesque style residence of Al. Ringling. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A stately house in the Greek Revival style stands under large evergreen trees. There are shutters on the windows and a two-story, columned front porch. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A two-story Victorian brick farmhouse with eave brackets, bay windows and a front porch with fretwork railing. The Baraboo bluffs are visible in the distan... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of exterior of the Honeymoon Cottage in Effinger Park. It features a screened porch. There are two other cottages behind it. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Row of cabins in Effinger Park. Each has a screened back porch. Picnic tables, sling-back chairs, and a parked car are under the trees on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A man and his dog are on the lawn in front of a house. A wooden sign reads, "Cottage and Rooms for Rent." Another sign below advertises for "N.F. Sherman 2... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down a winding dirt road with houses on both sides, as well as a large two-story building with a loading dock in front. Two people are in the back yar... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cottage, with a spinning wheel on the porch, at the Bonnie View Resort near Devil's Lake. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the exterior of the Ringling Mansion. Caption reads: "Mr. Al. Ringling's Residence, Baraboo, Wis." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Van Orden house. Caption reads: "Residence of J. Van Orden, Baraboo, Wis." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two cottages at Spruce Lawn. There is a vine on a trellis over the entrance of the cottage on the right. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ellen Lloyd Jones and her sister Jane Lloyd Jones standing in front of the Hillside School which they founded and managed. Both sisters wear ey... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Handwriting on reverse reads: "John P. Doll residence on Park Avenue." A two-story clapboard home with an attic and basement. A large porch is on the front... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Handwriting on reverse reads: "House across the street at 485 Broadway, Pra. du Sac." A two-story clapboard home with an attic and basement. A tower is abo... |
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