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Shell Mound and Field

Date: 1930
Description: Poppies are blooming in profusion in a field backed by an irregular hill, identified by the photographer as a shell mound.
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Four Wives

Date: 1930
Description: Four young women, one holding an infant, are posing sitting on a rug on the ground, inside the corner of two walls. Identified by the photographer only as ...
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Woman and Child with Dog

Date: 1930
Description: A woman and young girl are posing, sitting on the ground on a patterned carpet, with a dog resting with them. The woman has forearm tattoos, multiple brace...
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Girl and Wildflowers

Date: 1930
Description: A young girl is smiling as she is posing while sitting in a rocky field of wildflowers with purple blossoms. She is wearing traditional dress and a head sc...
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Algerian Landscape

Date: 1930
Description: In the foreground, oleander bushes are blooming in profusion, backed by arid hills.
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Roman Mosaics

Date: 1930
Description: Roman carvings and architectural remnants are displayed out-of-doors below two intricate mosaics in Algeria, possibly in Constantine.
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Roman Mosaics

Date: 1930
Description: Roman carvings and architectural remnants are displayed out-of-doors below two intricate mosaics in Algeria, possibly in Constantine.
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Camp

Date: 1930
Description: View across field towards an automobile parked in front of a row of tents set up in a landscape of rolling hills. Two men are sitting at a table near the t...
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Camp

Date: 1930
Description: View across field towards an automobile, possibly a 1930 model Citroen, parked in front of a row of tents set up in a landscape of rolling hills. Two men a...
Photograph

Grandad Bluff

Date: 1992
Description: View of Grandad Bluff with snow on the ground. There is an American Flag flying from a flagpole on the top of the bluff. Text on back of postcard reads: "F...
Postcard

Statue of Liberty in Lake Mendota

Date: 02 1979
Description: View of the forehead and torch of a replica of the Statue of Liberty installed by the Pail and Shovel Party on the snow-covered ice of Lake Mendota. Text o...
Postcard

Downtown Madison from Turville Park at Twilight

Date: 1980
Description: View of the Madison skyline across Lake Monona as seen from Turville Park.
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Confirmation Day

Date: 1920
Description: Edward John Brumder, third from left with boutonniere, and his sister, Henrietta Thekla "Pussy" Brumder, wearing a short white dress, posing with other fam...
Photograph

Mary Burke and Jane Matteson

Date: 06 1996
Description: Mary Burke and lifelong friend Jane Matteson sitting in a covered golf cart during a tour near Spring Green, Wisconsin during Mary's 80th birthday celebrat...
Photograph

Exterior View of the Guest House at Forest Lodge

Date: 1993
Description: A side view over an expanse of mowed lawn toward the Forest Lodge guest house showing the screen porch and side entrance. The guest house is a two-story ve...
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
Postcard

Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Blossoms, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Thousands of acres of cherry and apple blossoms burst into bloom during the la...
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sturgeon Bay, Door County." On reverse: "Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Door County. North Pierhead Light. Winter shows its pretty face on ...
Postcard

Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse is near Potawatomi State Park, north of St...
Postcard

Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County." On reverse: "Built in 1883, the Sherwood Point Lighthouse marks the entrance into Sturgeon B...

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