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Girl with Bubbles

Date: 09 30 1984
Description: A young girl playing with soap bubbles outdoors.
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Child at Library

Date: 10 09 1961
Description: A girl enjoys a book at the library.
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Tea Party

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club.
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Waiting out the Rain

Date: 06 21 1987
Description: Shoppers take refuge in the open doorway of a shop during a downpour.
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Air Show Crowd

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club.
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Railroad Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach.
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Barrel Race on the Lake

Date: 06 26 1909
Description: Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f...
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Heg Store

Date: 1920
Description: Ole Heg store, once also the home of Elias Stangeland (sp?). The original building was of log construction which was later boarded over. There is a woman s...
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Lunt and Fontanne in the Dining Room

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne formally dressed in the dining room of their home, Ten Chimneys.
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Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with a Group of Women

Date: 1962
Description: Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with a group of mostly women. He was the Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1959 until 1969.
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Hillcrest School

Date: 1933
Description: Students standing in front of Hillcrest School, a one-room school in Waukesha County.
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Old Hollander, Beer Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Old Hollander beer, brewed by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. On the label the beer i...
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The School at Work

Date: 1933
Description: Miss Harriet Cruver, teacher at Hillcrest School, Dist. No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, stands at the rear of her classroom ...
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Charles E. Curver House

Date: 1933
Description: Two unidentified girls pose seated on a large stone in a rock garden on the lawn of the Charles E. Curver home. There are small clumps of flowers in bloom ...
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Battle Creek School

Date: 1931
Description: Students of the Battle Creek School, Joint District No. 4, have gathered outside the school building for their picture. The girls are on or near the front ...
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Couple Standing on a Porch

Date: 1935
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Stewart standing on the porch of their home. The dwelling and porch railing are built of stone and mortar.
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Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
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Outdoor Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1905
Description: Outdoor portrait of Tillie Timel, Selma Lindeman, and Louise Timmel, cousins of Florentina Krueger, standing on a wood plank sidewalk.
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Lynn Fontanne

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne in work clothes and wearing a rhubarb leaf as a hat.
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Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.

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