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St. John Chrysostom Church

Date: 1900
Description: View of St. John Chrysostom Church and the surrounding cemetery, with a woman standing near the church's right side.
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Congregational Church

Date: 1915
Description: View of a congregational church.
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Lake Five

Date: 1910
Description: View down dirt road with small bridge along a lake. A man is driving an open automobile towards houses in the background.
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Jacob Friend Residence

Date: 1910
Description: Jacob E. Friend residence showing the main house, barn, bath house, and boat house on Pine Lake.
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Dousman House

Date: 07 22 1925
Description: A large wooden classical revival style building with rear extension identified as the Dousman House, or tavern. "[It] stands a few miles east of Waukesha, ...
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Franklin Stove

Date: 10 18 1925
Description: One of two Franklin stoves used in Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, built by Nelson P. Hawks in 1840.
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House at Pine Lake

Date: 1913
Description: A photographic postcard of Henrietta Brumder's two and one-half story, wood frame summer home at Pine Lake. Henrietta was the widow of Milwaukee publisher ...
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Sixth Birthday

Date: 08 30 1924
Description: Sunlight is streaming onto a screened porch where Barbara Brumder is smiling while sitting at the head of the table. She is posing with a wooden toy hoop a...
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Henriette with Grandchildren

Date: 1923
Description: Henriette Brandhorst Brumder (1841-1924), the widow of Milwaukee publisher and businessman George Brumder (1839-1910) poses while sitting in a wicker chair...
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Children with Dog

Date: 1924
Description: A small, wet dog "sits up" at the command of Barbara Brumder as her brother Herbert E. (center) are looking on. Younger brother Philip George, left, is loo...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the new shingle style lake house belonging to Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. A tall stone chimney rises near the main entrance, which fe...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: A view of the east, lake-facing facade of the new shingle style house of Herbert P. and Margaret Brouner Brumder. There are awnings over the second story w...
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Cousins

Date: 1925
Description: Barbara Brumder, left, posing with her cousins Mary Baldwin Messinger, center, and Joanne Beecher Messinger, right. The girls are wearing similar ethnic Ge...
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Children's Wedding

Date: 1925
Description: Clifford Messinger, rear left, and his wife, Gertrude Merker Messinger supervising a mock wedding at Villa Henrietta at Pine Lake. The bride is their daugh...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: Four children posing in the yard of a new, two-story shingle style house belonging to Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder. Near a hand pump, center, Ba...
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Moving In

Date: 1925
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing standing beside an automobile hitched to a trailer, which is precariously loaded with household furnishin...
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New House at Pine Lake

Date: 1925
Description: An elevated view looking down the hill through the leafless branches of trees towards the newly constructed shingle-style house belonging to Herbert Paul a...
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Toy Boat

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, wearing a bathing suit, is standing on a wooden pier holding a large toy sailboat. An unidentified woman is sitting on the steps of...
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Birthday Party Group

Date: 06 30 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, extreme right, sits at a dining table behind his eighth birthday cake. His younger brother, Philip, is also seated at the table an...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View across water towards Herbert Edmund Brumder. He is using an oar as a tiller on a rowboat fitted with a small sail. A small bathhouse and swimming pier...

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