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Dhein Tavern

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Description: View of the tavern, with a woman in a long dress and a dog on the front lawn. Carriage house, stables, and smoke house are in the rear. The tavern was bui...
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: Fort Howard Hospital, in the course of restoration.
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1930
Description: View of the Tank Cottage before restoration on its original site on the west side of the Fox River. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trad...
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1930
Description: View of the cottage with a stone wall in front of it, and surrounded by plants and trees. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River before res...
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1940
Description: Drawing of the front of the cottage and the stone wall. Text reads: "Roi 1776, Porlier 1805, Tank 1850."
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Frances Street Residence

Date: 1900
Description: 602 North Frances Steet. Property tax records indicate that the original part of this residence was erected in 1874 for attorney Burr W. Jones. It appears...
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Rear of Lanyon House

Date: 1948
Description: Rear view of the Lanyon house, built by William Lanyon. At the time of this photograph, the house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Jeuck.
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Remington House

Date: 1906
Description: Exterior view of the Remington House, located on 2nd Street.
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622 Mendota Court

Date: 1925
Description: 622 Mendota Court. This Mediterranean Revival fraternity house was designed by Law Brothers architects and erected in 1925 for the Beta Theta Pi chapter. B...
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Big Bill Thompson and Friends

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Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
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Chadbourne Hall

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior of Chadbourne Hall, a women's dormitory, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus
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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
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Sheriff's Residence

Date: 1905
Description: The Dane County sheriff's residence, with the county jail behind. A corner of the Dane County Court House is seen on the far left.
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Two Men Posing on a Porch

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Description: Snapshot of two African American men standing on a porch by a wooden chair in front of a brick building. A third man is standing behind them. The men are w...
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Four Generations

Date: 1916
Description: Four generations of members of the Glasier family on the porch.
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Palmer Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face...
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The Getto House After a Snowstorm

Date: 02 1922
Description: View from porch of a wood sided building behind a large pile of snow. A path has been shoveled on the wood walkway between the porch and the outer building...
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The Loreley

Date: 1888
Description: A view of the east side of the newly built Loreley, the summer home of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. The large, two and one half story, wood frame Queen Ann...
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Enoch Brown Fargo Residence

Date: 08 1899
Description: The Enoch B. Fargo residence shows a two-story Greek revival house with a gable wing with bay window facing the road. There is a full height ell on the lef...
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Portrait of Jeannette and Alfred Holt on the Island Lodge Porch

Date: 08 1898
Description: On the screened porch at Island Lodge, baby Alfred Holt is sitting in an infant-sized wooden rocking chair with sister Jeannette standing at his side. She ...

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