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1931 Demonstration Home

Date: 1931
Description: A two-story stone home in a Germanic-Austrian style. A decorative tile is set into the exterior between the windows on the second floor. Caption reads: "19...
Postcard

Wern Farms

Date: 1931
Description: Aerial view of a farm complex, including a farmhouse and several large buildings. Caption reads: "Wern Farms, Waukesha, Wis."
Book or Pamphlet

Henry Vilas Park Zoo: An Instructive Book on the Origin and Habits of Animals

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of book, with an illustration of an elephant on the front.
Map or Atlas

Henry Vilas Park Zoo Map

Date: 1931
Description: Fold-out map of the zoo inside a publication titled: "The Master Plan For Henry Vilas Park Zoo." Includes Lake Wingra, the lagoon, and the playground.
Photograph

In Nature's Gymnasium

Date: 1931
Description: Several children posing on tree limbs. The children are identified as: "Front row, right to left: Paul Syftestedt, Jean Chalmers, Ellen Shaw Garrison, Rich...
Poster

Indian Ceremonial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster advertising the Indian Ceremonial at Stand Rock Amphitheatre.
Map or Atlas

Map of Springfield Township

Date: 1931
Description: A plat map of Springfield, Wisconsin.
Postcard

First National Bank

Date: 1931
Description: View across intersection towards the corner bank, which is next to a service station. Automobiles are parked at the curb. Caption reads: "First National Ba...
Book or Pamphlet

WI Telephone Company

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building, 946 E. Main Street. In the background is a sign (reading backwards) for "Burgess Battery."
Photograph

Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: A man standing in a small boat controls a trolling motor with a rope as he leads a flotilla of canoes. There is a densely wooded shoreline in the backgroun...
Photograph

Boating

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of a man smoking a cigarette sitting in the bow of a motor propelled wooden boat waving a greeting toward the photographer. There are four ot...
Photograph

Champion

Date: 1931
Description: Herbert E. Brumder, son of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on the deck of his sailboat holding the Pine Lake Yacht Club championship trop...
Photograph

Barbara Brumder

Date: 1931
Description: Thirteen-year-old Barbara Brumder posing standing with her left hand resting on the mantel of the fireplace in the living room of the family home at 2030 E...
Photograph

Young Men in Costume

Date: 1931
Description: Four young men are dressed in elaborate costumes as the Three Muskateers and D'Artagnan and are posing in the Herbert P. Brumder house at 2030 East Lafayet...
Photograph

Santa Costume

Date: 1931
Description: A child dressed as Santa Claus is standing and posing in the living room of the Herbert P. Brumder residence at 2030 East Lafayette Place. The costume incl...
Photograph

Peter and Douglas DeWitt Hammering at the Pier

Date: 1931
Description: With their backs facing the camera, Peter DeWitt (l) and Douglas DeWitt (r) are standing side by side, hammering nails into a pier on Archibald Lake. Dougl...
Photograph

Windmill and Gas Station

Date: 1931
Description: Windmill and Gas Station. Written on back: "The 'Service Station.'"
Photograph

Archibald Lake Shoreline

Date: 1931
Description: View of the Archibald Lake shoreline from a small wooden boat.
Photograph

Sitting on the Beach with a Bird

Date: 1931
Description: Peter DeWitt and a friend or cousin are sitting on the sand beach near logs. A bird is perched nearby on a wooden pier.
Photograph

Mary and friends play Badminton

Date: 1931
Description: On Forest Lodge badminton court, left to right: Al Luideke, George Meine, Mary Griggs, Harriet Thompson, and Mary's father, Theodore Griggs who is addressi...

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