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| Description: | A view of the parlor at Holiday House. A piano stands near the windows and the room is furnished with a seating area focused around a fireplace on the left... |
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| Description: | The Card Room, which has wood paneling and heavy furniture. Doors on either wall open into adjoining rooms. Caption reads: "Card Room — Arcady Farm, New Pa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View uphill toward a group of people posing on and near the porch of Fern Rise, possibly a hotel or inn. Decorations and flags hang from the building's por... |
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| Description: | Polo players on horseback wear team uniforms while playing on a grass field. A multi-storied building stands in the background. |
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| Description: | Men and women play lawn tennis (?) on the grass common in front of an academy. |
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| Description: | View towrd the altar and pipe organ at Evangelical United Lutheran Church. The walls and ceiling of the church are decorated with interlocking pointed arch... |
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| Description: | Exterior of High School and Training School. The building features a cupola and brickwork. To the left, a horse-drawn carriage is parked, and a sidewalk le... |
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| Description: | Commercial buildings line South Barstow Street and automobiles are parked on either side. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalks past stores including "Kuppenhe... |
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| Description: | A group of people play on a hole at the Bedford Springs Hotel Miniature Golf Course. The hotel stands behind them and has multiple stories, some with balc... |
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| Description: | Several people stand near an umbrella-covered table outside Bedford Springs Hotel and Miniature Golf Course. The golf course stands in the foreground and t... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church. The church features a cross-topped steeple, a large stained glass window, and a belfry on its left side. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View looking uphill toward the back of Ingraham Hall at Ripon College. The primary material used is brick, and the foundation and basement are stone. The b... |
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| Description: | Front view of the Catholic Church. The building features a stairway leading to an arched entrance, a rose window, and a decorative steeple with a clock and... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of the front and side of the Lutheran Church. The building features two steeples, arched windows, and rose windows. |
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| Description: | View of a Lutheran Church featuring a large clock tower and two steeples, rose and arched windows, and an arched entrance with stairs leading up to it. An... |
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| Description: | An automobile parks along a road running past a courthouse. The building features stairs leading up to the front entrance, a clock tower topped by a cupol... |
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| Description: | A cannon and statue on a lawn next to a two-story brick building. The building features a large clock tower topped by a cupola, rectangular windows, and de... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Congregational Church. The building features two decorative steeples, arched windows, and stairs leading up to the entrance of the ch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View toward the brick and stone facade of a neoclassical-style public library on a corner. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward the library on the left, and houses behind a tree-lined sidewalk on the right. |
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