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Portage Canal and Lock

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of the Portage canal and lock, with the Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin ...
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Executive Residence

Date: 1965
Description: The Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. Used as the Executive Residence from 1883-1950.
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Fairchild Residence

Date: 1900
Description: Cyanotype interior view of the Fairchild Residence, home of Lucius Fairchild. The woman sitting down is Mrs. Lucius Fairchild. Among the artworks that can ...
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Lincoln School

Date: 1920
Description: Lincoln School with trees in the foreground.
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Eugene A. Gilmore House

Date: 1965
Description: The Eugene A. Gilmore house, 120 Ely Place, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
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Pendarvis Dining Room

Date: 1930
Description: The dining room in the Cornish Pendarvis home.
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Lamp House

Date: 1965
Description: The Robert Lamp house, 22 North Butler Street (viewed from East Mifflin Street). The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, in 1902, and bui...
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Turner's Academy

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of Professor Turner's academy.
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Camping at Devil's Lake

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of the Herman Taylor family camping at Devil's Lake. There is a moving train in the background on railroad tracks along the shoreline of the ...
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Studio Portrait of the Lewis Children

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk boy posing sitting on the left wearing a fringed leather dress. In the center is a...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Residence

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the residence of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The studio wing is shown after its transformation into an apartment for Wright's first wife and ...
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Reporters Hangout

Date: 10 1947
Description: The Press Club Bar in the New York Herald Tribune Building in Paris, France.
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Louis Schoen's Old Lager, Label

Date: 1944
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Louis Schoen's Old Beer Lager, Quality has No Substitute, Brewed and Bottled by the ...
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William O. and Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 08 1929
Description: William Otto Petersen sits on his mother's lap as they ride inside a passenger launch on Geneva Lake. One of William's older brothers sits on the right. Th...
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William Pettigrew Holding Ax and Hammer

Date: 1912
Description: William Pettigrew, who was Foreman at Camp Four for sometime beginning in 1885, is holding a double headed ax in his right hand and a hammer in his left ha...
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William Pettigrew Reading on the Ark Cottage Porch

Date: 1912
Description: William Pettigrew, who was Foreman at Camp Four beginning in 1885, is reading a hard cover book on the porch of the Ark cottage while sitting on a striped ...
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Alfred Holt's New Wheel

Date: 04 1907
Description: Alfred Holt is jumping on his new bicycle in the yard. Jeannette Holt is resting her hand on her brother's bicycle seat. Neighboring homes are in the backg...
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New Bridge Takes Kinks Out of Road

Date: 04 21 1929
Description: View towards two bridges. Article reads: "Highway 59, where it crosses the Rock River between Milton and Edgerton, is the scene of a bridge construction an...
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Pleasure Boat on Lake Michigan

Date: 1900
Description: View of a boat, the Whittaker, with most people sitting in chairs, and a few men standing. In the background is a steep shoreline, with houses along...
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Mr. and Mrs. Carroll

Date: 1926
Description: Portrait of a man and woman, standing outside the open door to a log cabin. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, 1926."

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