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J. Robert Taylor Family with Christmas Tree

Date: 1915
Description: Family posed with Christmas tree in living room. Identified from left as Donna Taylor Adams, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Ellen Taylor Higgins, and Fred Taylor ...
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Willms Christmas Tree Stand

Date: 1885
Description: A Christmas tree stand made by Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917), a cigarmaker, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is probably made of cigar boxes. Written on back:...
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Kelly Kids at Gimbels

Date: 1951
Description: A group of children meeting Santa at Gimbels. Decorated Christmas trees are next to his chair.
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Christmas Party, Home Nursing Neighbors

Date: 1957
Description: Several women and children are standing and posing, with a Christmas tree behind them, and tables in front of them that have gifts on them. Caption reads: ...
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Nylon Christmas Tree

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Portrait of a girl wearing a red top, black pants and pink slippers holding a Santa doll while sitting on the carpet in front of a white nylon Christmas tr...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1890
Description: An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ...
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Christmas Display

Date: 1925
Description: A tall Christmas tree, a cut-out Santa, and a dollhouse dominate a holiday display in front of the bay window in the dining room of Herbert Paul and Margar...
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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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Christmas Display

Date: 12 1909
Description: Light from a dormer window illuminates a number of Christmas trees, including a tall and lavishly decorated tree, in the home of George Brumder on Grand Av...
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Herbert Brumder Reading

Date: 12 1916
Description: Herber Paul Brumder (1885-1967) relaxing in an easy chair with his crossed legs on an ottoman as he is reading the Germania Herold newspaper. There ...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1916
Description: A Christmas tree decorated with glass ornaments, tinsel garland, and round electric lights is standing on a large block of wood in front of the bow window ...
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Christmas, 1917

Date: 12 1917
Description: A night-time view of Herbert and Margaret Brumdber's living room decorated for Christmas. The live tree is decorated with electric lights, glass ornaments,...
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Christmas Presents

Date: 12 1923
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder is sitting on the floor holding the halyard of a large toy sailboat which is resting on a stand. On the floor in front of him are a ...
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Christmas Eve

Date: 12 24 1923
Description: A large Christmas tree fills the bay window in the dining room of Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. There are Christmas gifts arranged around the tree, and ...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1924
Description: A tall, lighted Christmas tree stands in the dining room of the Herbert P. Brumder family residence, 2030 East Lafayette Place. Glass ornaments and tinsel ...
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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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Herbert on Bicycle

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder posing on his bicycle next to the Christmas tree in the family living room at 2030 East Lafayette Place. He is wearing a suit with k...
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Brumder Family Christmas

Date: 1925
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder, left, is sitting in an armchair in the living room of the family home at 2030 East Lafayette Place. Her childre...
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Christmas 1928

Date: 12 1928
Description: A large Christmas tree, putz (nativity) scene and gifts fill the living room of the Herbert P. Brumder residence, 2030 East Lafayette Place. The tree is d...
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Christmas 1929

Date: 12 1929
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Herbert E., Philip (partially obscured), and Barbara are playing with their Christm...

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