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Aerial View over Vilas Park

Date: 1924
Description: Aerial view looking southwest over Madison's Vilas Park.
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Picnic Point Farm House

Date: 1924
Description: The Jackson Family farm house on Picnic Point before it was remodeled in 1924.
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Twenty-First Street

Date: 1924
Description: Near Chestnut Street. View looking down a wet and icy sidewalk with melting snowbanks. Houses line the street.
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Aerial View Across Isthmus

Date: 1924
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison aerial view overlooking the lower campus and surrounding neighborhoods. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background...
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Tornado Damage

Date: 1924
Description: Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t...
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Students and Teacher Displaying Portrait of President

Date: 1924
Description: A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard.
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1924
Description: A tall Christmas tree with electric lights is standing in the ornately decorated parlor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder, at the corner of Gr...
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In Florida

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder is sitting on the running board of a well-polished automobile with her two sons, Herbert Edmund, left, and Philip Geor...
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Dining Room

Date: 1924
Description: A view of the dining room in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Sunlight bathes the ...
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Music Room

Date: 1924
Description: A sculpted bust of George Brumder (1839-1910) is sitting on a grand piano near a bay window in the Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin)...
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Parlor

Date: 1924
Description: A parlor or sitting room, with a view into a small room beyond a doorway, probably in the tower of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner o...
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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: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, the youngest child of Herbert Paul and Margaret Brouner Brumder, is picking up a brick from a pile on a construction site. The house...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1924
Description: An electrically lit Christmas tree standing near the bow window in the living room of Herbert and Margaret Brumder, 2030 East Lafayette Place. An abundance...
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Tower Room

Date: 1924
Description: An interior view of the George and Henriette Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. The view is from a large ro...
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Scene at Saukville

Date: 1924
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene at Saukville, Wis." Small town scene of a neighborhood from a grassy field. Several dwellings are in the middle ground with com...

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