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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Member

Date: 1938
Description: Full-length view of a Neighborhood House Garden Club member standing on the front steps of her house and tending to her flower boxes while turning to face ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club Children

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Junior Garden Club members on an outing to Babcock Memorial Gardens at the University of Wisconsin; ...
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Farms of I.N. Stewart and Robt. A. Stewart

Date: 1882
Description: This manuscript map from 1882 shows land use and land for sale in a portion of the Town of Pewaukee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Woods, marshland, springs,...
Photograph

Hazel Marsden

Date: 1932
Description: Hazel Marsden, a 12-year old student at Prairie School, holds gladiolus flowers from her garden. There is a tobacco plant growing among the flowers.
Photograph

Lilia Suckow

Date: 1932
Description: Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house.
Photograph

Lorrie Otto in the Garden

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Description: Lorrie Otto in a native wildflower garden behind her home.
Photograph

Flower Garden

Date: 1931
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...
Photograph

Working in the Garden

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, 14, and his sister Helen, 12, work barefoot in the garden of their home farm. Both are students at the Cloverland School, District No. 2. Th...
Photograph

Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
Postcard

Brick House with Garden

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a brick house with a garden in the gated front yard. A church is in the background on the left.
Print

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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Apiary of N.E. France

Date: 1904
Description: Apiary of 92 colonies owned by N.E. France, a celebrated beekeeper. In the center is the frame of the 10x10-ft extracting house.
Photograph

Marble Bust in a Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: Classical marble bust surrounded by vegetation in a garden.
Photograph

Illustration of Anton Jansha, People, and Hives

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Description: Illustration from an unknown book. At the top is a portrait of beekeeper Anton Jansha (1734-1773) and German text in a cartouche below his name. The bottom...
Photograph

Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
Photograph

Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: View of front porch of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
Photograph

Ladies of Durand

Date: 1895
Description: Posed group portrait of twenty-eight women, perhaps a meeting of some local women's organization.
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Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.
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Main Street and Walters House

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of houses and yards on Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. There is a large white house with a tower is the family home of the Walters w...

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