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| Date: | 09 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Elsie Bostock was honored by being named Wisconsin's first nationally accredited judge for flower shows. The appointment was made by the National Coun... |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for International's Cub Cadet lawn and garden tractor from the back of "Tractor Farming" magazine. The advertisement features color photogra... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Leo and Helen Bonack, at W2472 Hwy TW (Section 6), have lived here for 38 years. Cows were last milked in 1960. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Is this a modern sculpture in the Dyer yard? No, Pam uses these ladders for her bean plants. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Fritz and Sandy Grulke have a nice trellis at the entrance to their garden. |
| Date: | 09 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Jean Ward of 2961 Milwaukee Street is standing beneath a peach-laden tree that grew in his garden from pits discarded 8 years ago. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Having encountered some huge stones in their fields, Richard and Dorothy decided to make some into a centerpiece on their lawn. Richard estimates the top s... |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a checkered dress uses a hoe in a small garden plot. Trees, shrubs, and an open field can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, escorting Speaker of the House of Representative Thomas Foley, who was heading a house leadership trip to Ireland. To ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi... |
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| Description: | Large group, thirty or so, of men, women, children and infants posing standing in the yard of a house in front of and behind a wooden fence. In the center ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | A volunteer discussing seed catalogs with two nursing home residents as they are sitting outside on lawn chairs. They are at Monona Drive Rest Home at 4202... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Garden Club posing in their yards or next to their plants. Started in 1931 as part of... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers... |
| Date: | 06 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Dr. Henry Suckle (left), one of the Madison Rose Society's many physician rose enthusiasts, admiring flowers in Olbrich Park with James Marshall, city park... |
| Date: | 08 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Members of the Little Garden Club plan a flower show. They include, from left, Alice Hutchins, Rachel Landphier, Barbara Barrett, and Lydia Shafer. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, poses with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Schmidt Reese, and brother-in-law Dr. Hans Reese on the shrub-bordered brick driv... |
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| Description: | Large group, thirty or so, of men, women, children and infants posing standing in the yard of a house in front of and behind a wooden fence. In the center ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | William F. Petersen, rear, poses on the lawn with an unidentified boy and a dog. Behind them is a low, fancy metal wire fence which encloses a garden near ... |
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