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Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in Amsterdam

Date: 1946
Description: Left to right: friend Sophie, Josef and Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in their home in Amsterdam. The tablecloth was made by Mrs. Bader and retu...
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T.R. Hefty House

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: The Thomas R. Hefty house, 99 Cambridge Road, Maple Bluff. The home is being considered for a new governor's mansion.
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: The living room of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address, 611 Elmside Boulevard), with built-in bookcases, cupboards ande a free...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior bedroom in the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue. Built as a carriage house for James and Minnie Corry, in 1911, it was remodeled as a r...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the stairway, with a telephone on a cabinet n...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the upstairs hall at the top of the stairway....
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Mr. Tony Gildig

Date: 09 23 1936
Description: A man wearing overalls sitting with a newspaper in his hands at a table in a house. Original caption reads: "Mr. Tony Gildig owner of McCormick-Deering 6 c...
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Abram and Agnes Gaar House

Date: 1933
Description: Mansion of Abram and Agnes Gaar, built in 1876. Gaar was one of the founders of the Gaar-Scott Company, manufacturers of steam engines and threshing machin...
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Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...
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Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown hearing the bedtime prayers of a small boy whose mother is sick and abse...
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Martin House, 327 Milton Ave. Janesville

Date: 1919
Description: French Second Empire style, C. Loftus Martin House, 327 Milton Ave., built ca. 1868. Three children stand in yard. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesvil...
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Woman on Porch of House

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Description: View from road of woman standing next to a chair on the porch of a wooden frame house behind a fence and a sidewalk.
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Family in Dining Room

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Description: A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb...
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Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1902
Description: Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll.
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Parlor in the Bass House

Date: 1897
Description: The parlor in the home of Dr. Edward Bass showing a parlor organ near a window, and other furnishings.
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Everetta and Sewing Machine

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass stands in a room near chairs in front of a treadle sewing machine. A doll buggy is also visible. A tapestry or blanket hangs on the wall on t...
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Dr. Bass in Parlor

Date: 1895
Description: Self-portrait of Dr. Edward Bass reading in his parlor. Several prints of his own photographs decorate the room. There is a parlor organ on the right.
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Two-Story House

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior of two-story house with brick work on front corner. There is an enclosed patio extending from the house towards the front drive. A street lamp is ...
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Freshly Built Two-Story Houses

Date: 1939
Description: Two freshly built two-story houses in a clearing with trees. Both have small, covered back patios. There are no driveways or shrubbery in place yet.

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