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| Date: | 11 1941 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot at Sussex (formerly known as Templeton). Two cars are parked near the depot and a bagga... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Octagon House. The caption reads: "The Pewaukee octagon house is the one for Poe. Legend says the man who built it killed his wife. Truth expla... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cistercian Monastery. Plants and trees shroud building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined avenue leading to the Cistercian Monastery. Caption reads: "Avenue Leading to the Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards the buildings of the Cistercian Monastery. Caption reads: "Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station... |
| Date: | 02 08 1948 |
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| Description: | "This ski hill was a popular attraction located near Oconomowoc. Ward Woltman of Oak Grove is on the jump." |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt pulling weeds in the cornfield at Ten Chimneys. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne in work clothes and wearing a rhubarb leaf as a hat. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt standing on a wooden ladder and picking plums from a tree in the Ten Chimneys orchard. Lynn Fontanne stands below holding a basket to collect t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn.... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne having a picnic while leaning against a stack of cut grain in a field at Ten Chimneys. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac... |
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