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Album Page with Violets

Date: 1901
Description: An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot...
Photograph

The Blair Residence

Date: 
Description: Edward McCormick and Elizabeth Blair House, Keck and Keck Project #500. Project date 1953. George Fred and William Keck were born in Watertown, Wisconsin, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Private Room I

Date: 1901
Description: View of a small private room with a cast-iron and brass bed. A single window with sheer dotted Swiss tied-back curtains brightens the room. On the hardwoo...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Private Room II

Date: 1901
Description: View of a large, private hospital room with a linen covered cast-iron and brass bed. Two windows with lace tier curtains allow light to enter the room, and...
Postcard

Honeymoon Suite — Happy Landing Motel and Antique Shop

Date: 
Description: Interior of bedroom suite. Text on reverse reads: "This bed, vintage 1860, was obtained from an old home near Springfield, Ill. The rich black walnut was c...
Photograph

Bedroom at Villa Louis

Date: 10 1936
Description: A view of the southwest bedroom of Villa Louis, the Hercules Louis Dousman mansion. There is floral wallpaper on the walls, and the room is furnished with ...
Photograph

Herbert Paul Brumder

Date: 1923
Description: Herbert Brumder is reflected in the center mirror of a vanity in the bedroom of his home at 2030 East Lafayette Place. Partially obscuring the mirrors are ...
Photograph

Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A floor lamp is standing on the left beside a chaise lounge in a bedroom of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsi...
Photograph

Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A small table with books on the lower shelf is standing in front of the fireplace in a bedroom of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of...
Photograph

Birthday in Bed

Date: 1926
Description: Philip George Brumder is sitting propped up in a single bed. He is looking at a toy sand or gravel conveyor which is standing next to a birthday cake with ...
Photograph

Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A view of a bedroom in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. The bed has a tall carved ...
Photograph

Staircase

Date: 1924
Description: A view of the third floor landing of the main stairway in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th...
Photograph

Birthday in Bed

Date: 11 22 1930
Description: A metal overbed table holding a birthday cake and wrapped gift has been positioned over the bed of Philip Brumder, who sitting up in bed and is wearing a r...
Photograph

Rowing Machine

Date: 1915
Description: A profile view of Herbert Paul Brumder sitting shirtless on a rowing machine. There is an oriental-style carpet on the floor.
Photograph

Dream House Built from Plans in Newspaper

Date: 10 29 1960
Description: Mike Elliott is shown riding his favorite wooden giraffe in his room in the "dream House" built from plans in the Wisconsin State Journal by his par...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Front Master Bedroom

Date: 1930
Description: A bedroom on the second floor of the mansion. The window on the left of the bed faces the street, and there are two windows on the right wall. Three rugs ...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Front Left Bedroom

Date: 1930
Description: The front bedroom on the second floor of the mansion. The foot of the bed is in the foreground, and in the corner on the left near a window is a dressing t...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Left Back Bedroom

Date: 1930
Description: Bedroom with a bed on the right wall, with a wall hanging above it. There is a chair and settee in front of a double window along the back wall, which look...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Third Bedroom on Left

Date: 1930
Description: Bedroom on second floor, with a bay window looking out into the side yard, and leading to the balcony. There are two beds, with a table and lamp between th...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Ole Bull Bedroom

Date: 1930
Description: Right rear master bedroom with a large, carved wood bed with tall headboard set at an angle in the corner of the room. There is a framed portrait of Ole Bu...

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