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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of actor John Gilbert's Spanish-style house at 1400 Tower Grove Road. There is a tower on the hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the log Hotz cottage on Europe Lake, seen in the background. The photographer climbed a tree to capture this view. A dirt road leads to th... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of W.E. Porter's two-story house. The house has fancy trim. Three women are seated in the grass on the left, and a boy and girl are o... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle... |
| Date: | 12 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a view of the exterior of the settlement house at 768 West Washington Avenue decorated with garland... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A decorated pumpkin serves as a table centerpiece. It is decorated with a face, a hat made of fresh flowers, and attached leaves for hair. |
| Date: | 10 16 1957 |
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| Description: | The Madison Visiting Nurse Service held its annual meeting at Blackhawk Country Club. The Visiting Nurse Service, a Red Feather agency, is the only service... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across road of a white wooden church with a belfry, and a weather vane on top of the steeple. There is decorative running trim on the eaves. |
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| Description: | View from street of the Standard Oil filling station with Red Crown gasoline pumps. Two attendants are standing near an entrance with a sign for a postal t... |
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| Description: | The Masonic Temple on a street corner with lampposts. A large stained glass window and columns above the entrance. Automobiles parked near a service garage... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of three-quarter view from front of Grace Church. A double door entrance at the sidewalk level is flanked by stone steps that lead up to a... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Catholic church. Images of saints are in the stained glass windows along the side. There is a large belfry near the front entrance.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 35-foot tall Christmas tree heavily draped with tinsel standing in the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 12 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Margaret Kronenberg sits under a Christmas tree while modeling a Christmas skirt she decorated herself. The skirt is made of white felt and was hand-decora... |
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| Description: | View from street of the State Bank, which is a two-story brick building with a flag flying on the roof. The windows on the first floor have stained glass d... |
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| Description: | View from unpaved road of the "Home Hotel," a two-story wood frame building with a balcony and a porch. Several flowers are planted in the garden and in po... |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road of the Community Church. There are stained glass windows in an arch above the main entrance, and three more along the front. There... |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of a privately built chapel, decorated in Norwegian style by Mr. and Mrs. Boynton, surrounded by trees. |
| Date: | 02 25 1926 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from the booklet printed for the Forty-ninth Annual Dinner of the American Paper and Pulp Association at the Waldorf Astoria H... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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