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| Description: | Exterior of Captain John White House, built about 1707, a modest home overgrown with greenery. Published by H. W. Newcomb. |
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| Description: | View of Wistaria Lodge, an early American residence, built in 1733. Also known as the Caleb Gardner House, the building features a central entrance and ch... |
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| Description: | View of the modest home of Mary Washington (1708-1789), purchased by George Washington in 1772. The two-story residence features a front porch and is situ... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of the family of Robert E. Lee, built in the Georgian style in 1725. To the right of the house, the kitc... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of the family of Robert E. Lee, built in the Georgian style in 1725. The building features a central st... |
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| Description: | Draswing of the exterior view of Monticello, built in 1769 by Thomas Jefferson. The residence features a colonnaded front porch and a central dome. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The oldest known image of the Wade House (taken from Ambrotype) with the Sheboygan/Fond du Lac Plank Road in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | The official opening of Wade House. Amid great fanfare, complete with an appearance by poet Carl Sandburg, Wade House opened to the public on June 6th, 195... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Visitors enjoy a stagecoach ride, an attraction at Old Wade House during the August "twilight tours" of this historic site. A team of two horses stand in t... |
| Date: | 07 05 1968 |
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| Description: | Grand opening of the Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum. A stagecoach is pulled by horses from the Jung Carriage Museum at Wade House along a curved gravel dri... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from road of the exterior of Wade House. Children and adults are posing sitting and standing on the porch and balcony. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking over Camp Randall to the University of Wisconsin campus taken from a home at 216 Campbell Street. Seen are Hiram Smith Hall, Dean Hen... |
| Date: | 03 1973 |
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| Description: | A new roof for the tower of the main house at Black Point stands on the lawn in front of the house. The roof, of an ultra-modern design, rests on a short s... |
| Date: | 01 1909 |
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| Description: | Three men in western dress riding camels pose with their Egyptian guides in front of the Sphinx at the Giza necropolis, with the Cheops pyramid in the back... |
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| Description: | This is number four in Stanley Hanks' collection of four prints of the Keystone House in Shorewood. This is the historical marker erected in 1972 by the Da... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a sign identifying the Spirit Rock, which is a large boulder surrounded by sturdy protective posts. There are tree stumps in the foreground and a w... |
| Date: | 10 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr., (left) and James R. Law, state highway commission chairman, standing indoors with the Peshtigo cemetery marker. The marker w... |
| Date: | 10 07 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of survivors of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871 are gathered in front of the Peshtigo Fire historical marker. The marker dedication coincided with the 80... |
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