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Row of Homes

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Description: Several people sit on the porches of a row of homes in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company.
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Children in the Garden

Date: 1928
Description: Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ...
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
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Courthouse and Jail

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Description: View of the Green Lake County Courthouse and Jail. Two children stand on the steps of the jail, built in 1869. The courthouse, built in 1863, is on the rig...
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Parade Float

Date: 1905
Description: A parade float elaborately decorated with flowers and pulled by four robed horses is traveling west along East Doty Street, with the Central (Fess) Hotel i...
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Child in Decorated Baby Carriage

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Description: Photographic postcard of a young, smiling child sitting in a baby carriage covered in flowers.
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Group Posed in front of House

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Description: Three men, three women, a boy, and a dog hitched to a small wagon are posed standing in front of a two-story brick house. A team of horses with a buggy is ...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Catherine LaBruzzo

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L...
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Zimmerman Twin's Birthday Party

Date: 08 25 1957
Description: The Zimmerman twins, Lettie and Lloyd, celebrated their 11th birthday with 54 friends and 12 teachers at Lincoln School. Lettie and Lloyd are shown accepti...
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Dueholm and Nelson

Date: 1979
Description: State Legislator Harvey Dueholm (left) with Senator Gaylord Nelson, at the dinner marking Dueholm's retirement.
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Ida Scholz

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor portrait of Ida Scholz standing in front of the Langholf home. Several potted plants are on the steps beside her.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ida Scholz

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor portrait of Ida Scholz sitting on the steps in front of the Langholf home. Several flowering plants are on the stairs beside her.
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Miss Frances Zuill and Dr. May Reynolds, Retirees from Wisconsin School of Home Economics

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Miss Frances Zuill (left), retiring dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Home Economics, and Dr. May Reynolds, retiring home economic professor, a...
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Women Dressed in White Smocks Posing with Kitchen Utensils

Date: 1900
Description: Group of women sitting and standing outdoors, perhaps at the McCormick Works Club House. All the women are wearing long smocks over dresses, except the wom...
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Group Portrait at High School Graduation

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Description: Group portrait of five people at a high school graduation. The graduate is wearing a blanket with a Native American motif draped over one of her shoulders,...
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Floral Delivery Truck

Date: 04 27 1929
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck with a sign that reads: "Parkside Floral Shoppe." There is a brick building in the...
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Children Working in Garden at Van Vlissingen School

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Description: Children, boys and girls, are working in a garden at the school. The stone and brick school building has arched windows. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Children Looking at Flower Garden

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Description: Children are standing and kneeling around a flower garden. The building on the right may be a school. There is a brick wall in the background, and beyond a...
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George Albert Brumder Family

Date: 1982
Description: George Albert and Marilyn Ann (Coyne) Brumder are posing sitting outdoors on a brick wall with their four children. From left: James Frederick, George Rich...
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Group of Men in front of Plant Office Building

Date: 07 23 1912
Description: View across yard toward a group of men posing outside plant office building. A sign on the side of the brick building reads: "Smoking Prohibited in the Pre...

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