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Mowing the Lawn

Date: 05 28 1987
Description: A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained.
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Old Hollander, Beer Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Old Hollander beer, brewed by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. On the label the beer i...
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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Fountain Spring House Supper Menu

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Description: One-page menu from the Fountain Spring House, with a view of lush foliage and visitors strolling in the park adjacent to the hotel framed against a scene o...
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Charles E. Curver House

Date: 1933
Description: Two unidentified girls pose seated on a large stone in a rock garden on the lawn of the Charles E. Curver home. There are small clumps of flowers in bloom ...
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Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
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Policing the Grounds

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: View of a woman crouching down and pulling weeds from a flower bed and putting them into a bushel basket. Caption reads: "Policing the grounds was the assi...
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Henriette Brumder

Date: 1900
Description: Henriette Brandhorst (Mrs. George) Brumder posing outdoors with a bouquet of blossoms in her left hand. She is wearing a short fitted jacket over a striped...
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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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Frank & Anna Kreuser

Date: 1914
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a woman and a man standing and posing together around a pedestal. The man is wearing a suit with a corsage of flowers, and t...
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Barbara Brumder

Date: 08 30 1922
Description: Barbara Brumder (1918-2017) posing on her fourth birthday with a bouquet of flowers tucked in her right arm. She is holding two packages in her left hand a...
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Sixth Birthday

Date: 08 30 1924
Description: Sunlight is streaming onto a screened porch where Barbara Brumder is smiling while sitting at the head of the table. She is posing with a wooden toy hoop a...
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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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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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Birthday Breakfast

Date: 08 30 1928
Description: Barbara Brumder, center, is looking at the camera while sitting at a dining table which is set for breakfast. There is a floral arrangement in the center o...
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Margaret Brumder

Date: 1929
Description: The photographer's wife is posing sitting at a round outdoor table near their summer home on Pine Lake. She is wearing a light-colored dress and cap. The ...
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Children in Costume

Date: 1910
Description: Nine children, members of the extended Brumder family, posing in traditional German costume, including lederhosen, felt caps and "Loferl" stockings for the...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman posing among flowers in a border along the fenced tennis court near the summer home of Herbert P. Brumder at Pine Lake. She is wearin...
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Herbert and Barbara Brumder

Date: 1920
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, right, posing with his arms around his sister Barbara, on the lawn at Villa Henrietta, the Brumder estate on Pine Lake. The childre...
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Family at Villa Henrietta

Date: 1920
Description: Herbert P. Brumder, wearing a cap and necktie, is holding his son Herbert E. Brumder on his hip while his wife, Margaret is holding baby Barbara. The woman...

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