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Family Golf Outing

Date: 1936
Description: Two generations of the Brandel family pose with golf clubs at the Fox Lake Golf Course.
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Fence Sitters

Date: 1922
Description: School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day.
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Woman On Avery Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman holding flowers posing on the back of an Avery gasoline tractor.
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Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
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Man in Garden

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Description: A man stands in an unidentified garden gesturing upwards towards a topiary tree.
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Choice Honey for Sale

Date: 1924
Description: Outdoor portrait of a young dark-haired women standing in a field of flowers before a sign attached to a telephone pole. The sign reads: "Choice Honey For ...
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Off to the University

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Description: Sigurd Olson, posing proudly, as he leaves his Ashland home for study at the University of Wisconsin. A woman is standing in the doorway of a house behind ...
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Peter Wolfe and William Wolfe

Date: 1932
Description: Outdoor portrait of Peter Wolfe, chief of Lac Courte d'Oreilles band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians, with his son William Wolfe, who was Secretary of Lac Cou...
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Two Men with Implements and Cigarettes

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Description: Two men in work clothes and hats pose in a yard with farm implements. Both of them are smoking cigarettes.
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Group of People and Norwegian Flags

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Description: An unknown group of people gathered outdoors with Norwegian flags near what appears to be a pavilion. In the far background is a building with scaffolding ...
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Roger Baird

Date: 1933
Description: Roger Baird, 11 years old and a student at Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, poses on the arched fr...
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Felix Liburdi

Date: 1933
Description: Felix Liburdi, 17 years old, poses in front of the arched front porch of the Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and ...
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Felix Liburdi

Date: 1933
Description: Felix Liburdi, age 17 and a student at the Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, demonstrates his kicki...
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Frank Smith, Jr.

Date: 1933
Description: Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr...
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Swimmers at Jeffry's Mill

Date: 1933
Description: A diver is caught mid-air as another prepares to dive from a diving platform on the shore of the mill pond at Jeffry's Mill at Eagleville. A boy watches fr...
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Two Men with Snowshoes

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Description: Two men are standing in the snow in the woods. Each man is holding one traditional wooden snowshoe. The man on the left has a pipe in his mouth and is poin...
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Blueberry Trip

Date: 1912
Description: A group of people are walking away down the railroad tracks in search of blueberries. A pine and hemlock forest is on either side of the tracks. Caption re...
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Donald Holt, Jr. Playing in the Yard

Date: 1934
Description: Wearing a necklace of wooden beads. Donald Holt, Jr. is riding a 4-wheel cycle in the yard. Behind him is an Adirondack Chair, a tree, a sandbox, and a wir...
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Men Working on Building Forest Protection Lookout Tower

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Description: Men are working up in the tower during construction. One man is standing mid-height on a ladder that runs the length of the tower on the right side. There ...
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Mary Griggs (Burke) on Boathouse

Date: 1932
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is leaning against a pipe railing on the corner of the second story of the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wide-legged jumpsu...

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