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John Merker and His Grandmother

Date: 1915
Description: John Merker (1900-1961), dressed in straw hat, bib overalls and a work shirt, is holding a pipe in his left hand. He is wearing a fake beard. His grandmoth...
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Anniversary

Date: 08 07 1946
Description: Outdoor group portrait of members of the Brumder family at the celebration of the forty-fifth wedding anniversary of George Frederick Brumder (1878-1961), ...
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Brumder Summer Home

Date: 1895
Description: A view of the two and one-half story wood frame house built by George Brumder in 1893 on Pine Lake. There are two chimneys, and decorative ironwork on the ...
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Family Group at Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: Members of George Brumder's family posing on the porch of the summer house on Pine Lake. They are, from left, Henriette Brandhorst (Mrs. George) Brumder; H...
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Deutscher Press Club

Date: 07 1906
Description: An informal group portrait of members of the Milwaukee Deutscher Press Club and others, taken at Villa Henriette (mistakenly labeled "Villa Brumder"), the ...
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Brumder Family on Porch

Date: 1900
Description: George Brumder, sitting at right, and his wife Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, sitting and wearing a dark dress, are posing with family members on the porch ...
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Henriette with Grandchildren

Date: 1923
Description: Henriette Brandhorst Brumder (1841-1924), the widow of Milwaukee publisher and businessman George Brumder (1839-1910) poses while sitting in a wicker chair...
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On a Limb

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret Brouner (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, left, standing near the trunk of a large tree. Her three children, from left, George Philip, Barbara and Herber...
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Cousins

Date: 1925
Description: Barbara Brumder, left, posing with her cousins Mary Baldwin Messinger, center, and Joanne Beecher Messinger, right. The girls are wearing similar ethnic Ge...
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Children's Wedding

Date: 1925
Description: Clifford Messinger, rear left, and his wife, Gertrude Merker Messinger supervising a mock wedding at Villa Henrietta at Pine Lake. The bride is their daugh...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: Four children posing in the yard of a new, two-story shingle style house belonging to Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder. Near a hand pump, center, Ba...
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Birthday Party Group

Date: 06 30 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, extreme right, sits at a dining table behind his eighth birthday cake. His younger brother, Philip, is also seated at the table an...
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Brumder Family Group

Date: 1925
Description: Several children of George and Henriette Brumder, with their spouses, children and grandchildren posing for a group portrait on the grounds of Villa Henrie...
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Riding

Date: 1926
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder is holding the reins of a horse ridden by her older son, Herbert E. Brumder (left), and another boy, possibly Herb...
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Picnic

Date: 1926
Description: Members of the extended Brumder family are gathered around a long picnic table set up on a tennis court. Built on George and Henriette Brumder's summer est...
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Tenth Birthday

Date: 06 30 1927
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, far left, sitting at a table which is holding a birthday cake with lit candles, and behind it, a floral arrangement in celebration ...
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Tennis Court

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder is standing on a tennis court on the left, opposite her daughter, Barbara, who is wearing a shirt and slacks. Ther...
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Fourth of July

Date: 07 04 1928
Description: A woman standing on the left, possibly Emma Brumder, and six children are watching a "black snake" type fireworks on a circle of bare ground at Pine Lake. ...
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Lunch at Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: The Herbert P. Brumder family enjoying a wintertime lunch in their Pine Lake house. They are, from left, Herbert E., Barbara, Margaret, Philip, and Herbert...
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Family Group at Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: Group portrait of boys and girls posing on a long picnic table near the summer home of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder on Pine Lake. The children are...

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