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George Washington Elms

Date: 1933
Description: A posted sign reads: "George Washington Elms, From Mt. Vernon, VA to Mt. Vernon, WIS. Planted May 6th, 1916," at the Forest of Fame, consisting of trees gr...
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Aunt Lydia

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Aunt Lydia, a relative of the Brandel family, is wearing a dress and eyeglasses. She poses leaning against a tree.
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Little Boy Plays Golf

Date: 1936
Description: A toddler with curly hair plays golf. He is wearing a sailor shirt, shorts, and shoes.
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Little Boy with Golf Club

Date: 1936
Description: A little boy poses with a golf club. He is wearing a sailor shirt, shorts, and shoes. There is a birdhouse in the background.
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Hazel Marsden

Date: 1932
Description: Hazel Marsden, a 12-year old student at Prairie School, holds gladiolus flowers from her garden. There is a tobacco plant growing among the flowers.
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Orin Swingle

Date: 1932
Description: Orin Swingle, teacher at Strawberry School, poses with his left foot on the bumper of an automobile. He wears suspenders and holds his hat in his right han...
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Pompey's Pillar

Date: 1932
Description: A view of Pompey's Pillar, a rock formation four miles northeast of Highland. Written on the reverse of the photograph: "It is 150 feet high from the base ...
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Bluff at Woodlawn Farm

Date: 1932
Description: View looking up at two boys with two dogs posing atop a bluff at the Charles Gottschall farm.
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Phyllis Coggins

Date: 1933
Description: Phyllis Coggins, age 9, poses alongside the Cloverland School. She is identified as the "Leader in English" among the school children. She is wearing a s...
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Young House

Date: 1931
Description: Pictured in a heart-shaped frame is a story and one-half house with vertical log siding on the lower floor with a stand of large pine trees in the backgrou...
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Alice Klusinski, Graduate

Date: 06 1932
Description: Alice Klusinski poses in her graduation cap and gown. She is leaning on an automobile and holding a rose in her left hand.
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Alice Klusinski in Her Cap and Gown

Date: 06 1932
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Alice Klusinski posing in her cap and gown on graduation day.
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Leonore and Chickens

Date: 1930
Description: Leonore Judkins Middleton, wearing a striped jacket over her fancy dress, is looking down at a flock of chickens. She is wearing shoes with buckles, and a ...
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Winners

Date: 1937
Description: A smiling Philip Brumder, rear, poses with his thumbs tucked in his shirt in a boastful gesture as he is towed in a dinghy sailboat with his sister Barbara...
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McCormick Slave Quarters — Walnut Grove Restoration

Date: 01 1938
Description: Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right, and mountains are in the dis...
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McCormick Slave Quarters — Walnut Grove Restoration

Date: 01 1938
Description: View of the end of the building showing scaffolding around the the log walls, and the peaked roof above. Handwritten on back: "Slave Quarters in process of...

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