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Houses and Water Tower

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees.
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Schley Home

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior view of the Schley home on the corner of North Astor Street and East Juneau Avenue. It was built ca. 1850.
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Lowell Damon House

Date: 1935
Description: The Lowell Damon house, east elevation or front. Snow is on the ground.
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Dolnick Family Residence Perspective Drawing

Date: 05 1956
Description: Perspective drawing of the Sy Dolnick Residence, "Woodwind," designed by John Randal McDonald.
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Kilbourntown House

Date: 1940
Description: Benjamin Church House. Two men sit on the porch of a one-story white house. Fluted columns on front porch roof, which is continuous with the main roof. ...
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Samuel Marshall Residence

Date: 1900
Description: 40 North Prospect Avenue. Built ca. 1860, E.T. Mix, architect. House is three stories with a small tower on the roof. To the right is the yard with smal...
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Ludington Patton Residence

Date: 1900
Description: E.T. Mix, architect. 1 Waverly Place, built 1872. Three-quarter view of the front and right side of the house. A sidewalk and trees are on the right, with ...
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Two-Story House

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior of two-story house with brick work on front corner. There is an enclosed patio extending from the house towards the front drive. A street lamp is ...
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Foundation For House

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of construction workers placing rebar in the foundation of a house in preparation for concrete to be poured.
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Residential Housing from Hill

Date: 1936
Description: Recently constructed residential housing as viewed from a hill. A fence is in the foreground. Porches, backyards, and small garages lead down to the Villag...
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Men Walking on Residential Street

Date: 1936
Description: View up residential street with newly constructed houses, young trees and lampposts. Men in suits and hats walk along the sidewalk. A speed limit sign is o...
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Children Playing in front of Porch

Date: 09 1939
Description: View from road of a group of seven children playing in front of a house and on the porch, while a woman holding a bag of groceries walks past on the sidewa...
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The Milwaukee Boat House

Date: 1930
Description: The Edmund B. Gustorf house, built in the 1920's in the shape of a boat, sitting on a low rise at the corner of East Hampshire Street (foreground left) and...
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George F. Brumder Residence

Date: 1930
Description: View across street towards an automobile parked in front of the George F. Brumder residence, which was built in 1910 on the corner of Grand (now Wisconsin)...
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George W. Peckham House

Date: 1984
Description: Exterior view of the George Peckham House at 1029 North Marshall Street.
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Sledding

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Brumder, pipe in mouth, is sitting on a sled with his son Philip George in front of him, and likely his son Herbert Edmund (face obscured) behind h...
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Wedding Preparations

Date: 07 1917
Description: In preparation for the supper to celebrate the wedding of Gertrude Merker and Clifford F. Messinger, tables with tablecloths and chairs have been placed in...
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Grand Avenue

Date: 1923
Description: An elevated view of Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue near 18th Street from the second floor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder. Snow is covering th...
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Sledding

Date: 12 1923
Description: Barbara and Herbert Edmund, the two older children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, posing with their sleds at the top of a wooden slide in the ba...
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Villa Henrietta

Date: 1910
Description: Garden phlox bloom in the yard of Villa Henrietta, the summer home of George and Henriette Brumder. A sidewalk leads up a slope to the Pine Lake-facing (ea...

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