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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | The house built by Charles A. Grignon between 1837 and 1839 for Mary Meade, his Pennsylvania bride. Mrs. Grignon and her family are standing in front of th... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of the family of Robert E. Lee, built in the Georgian style in 1725. To the right of the house, the kitc... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | The official opening of Wade House. Amid great fanfare, complete with an appearance by poet Carl Sandburg, Wade House opened to the public on June 6th, 195... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, preparing the new concrete foundation for the "Blue Dragon Urn," which was relocated from Sid Boyum's backyard to the pu... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, standing by the "Smiling Mushroom" and a new concrete foundation that he poured for the "Blue Dragon Urn." Both sculptur... |
| Date: | 09 15 1937 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small window openings. Two wheelbarrows ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1937 |
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| Description: | View of old foundation and debris. A fence, small building and the Walnut Grove brick manor house are in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View of side of the McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the right. There are small windows, one on the lower level, and another on the upper l... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View of side of the log McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the left. On the ground level is a doorway near the corner on the left, and a smal... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View down wooden walkway towards the front of the mill, which is built into a hill. The roof has been removed, and the interior stairway to the second floo... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small horizontal openings in the log wal... |
| Date: | 11 1937 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "Excavation in pit at end of mill building showing portion of old water wheel after back boards had been removed." |
| Date: | 10 1937 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "Excavation in water wheel pit back of old mill building. Note three logs used as support for stone pillar to hold outer end of water ... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right, and mountains are in the dis... |
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