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| Description: | Cistercian Monastery. Plants and trees shroud building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined avenue leading to the Cistercian Monastery. Caption reads: "Avenue Leading to the Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards the buildings of the Cistercian Monastery. Caption reads: "Cistercian Monastery, Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | John C. Pew home, at 3650 Lake Mendota Drive, Shorewood Hills. This home was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Construction began in 1939, and by 1... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pierce home, located at 424 North Pinckney Street, built about 1857. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rest Lake Dam of Manitowish River, Manitowish. Photograph taken from Vance Lake Highway (old Highway 51, now Highway W). |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Smith's Store in Montrose, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Leslie (formerly Old Belmont), Wisconsin. The first Wisconsin Terrritorial Capitol, a building rented by the Legislature which met there for 46 days in 183... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Quisling Towers Apartment building, 1 East Gilman Street at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. Built in the Art Moderne style by the Quisling bro... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Saint Raphael's Cathedral. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Spring Tavern after its restoration by James Dickson. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Levi B. Vilas mansion at the corner of Henry and Langdon Streets. Built about 1850, it later became a fraternity house for Phi Gamm... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of A.O. Smith Laboratories. Architects were Holabird and Root. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of courthouse in center foreground with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Statue created in honor of Robert Burns. Located in what is known as Burns Square, between Prospect & Farwell Avenues at Knapp Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. View from atop a building of a large building located in the center, next to a smokestack. In the foreground is part of a round... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | West Milwaukee. Elevated view of tracks, trains, and buildings. A train roundhouse is located in the background. |
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