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Coffin House (?) Parlor

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Description: Interior view of a parlor. A chandelier is hanging from the ceiling, and multiple photographs and portraits are displayed on the walls. There is a piano al...
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Dining Room

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Description: Interior view of a dining room featuring table with a small sculpture in the center, rustic chairs, a screened in fireplace, decorative vases, flower arran...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: Interior view of the lobby, with three wicker chairs sitting in a row in the foreground, and a large room behind it that includes the front desk and numero...
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Academy of Our Lady of Mercy

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Description: A view of the parlor's fireplace and mantle, with cabinets standing on either side. A statue of the Virgin sits in the mantle along with candlesticks. Deco...
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The Spalding Inn

Date: 1918
Description: Interior of the Spalding Inn, furnished with chairs and end tables arranged around a fireplace with a stone mantle. Recessed bookshelves stand on either s...
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Hotz Family Christmas

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of members of the family of Ferdinand Hotz posed in front of the Christmas tree in the Hotz home. They are, standing in the back, left to ri...
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Clifford Vickers Home

Date: 1932
Description: Sunlight from the front bay window illuminates the parlor of the Vickers house, identified as the home of Marian Hintz, a pupil at the Prairie School. A co...
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Dining Porch at Black Point

Date: 1970
Description: Low flower arrangements decorate a table set for at least 25 people on the screened dining porch at the main house at Black Point Estate. There is a large...
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Petersen House

Date: 1930
Description: The fireplace in the living room of the Edward Petersen house features a classical revival surround and mantel. A small stuffed toy dog sits under a carved...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1899
Description: Christmas tree in the home of Edward Petersen decorated with a wide assortment of ornaments and tinsel garland. It is standing on a low table in front of a...
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William F. Vilas House Parlor

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Description: An interior view of a sumptuous Victorian parlor, with a Steinway piano, chandelier and ferns at the William Vilas house, 12 E. Gilman Street. A curtained ...
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Entry Hall

Date: 1942
Description: A portrait of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt hangs in the front hall of Black Point. A handwritten caption which accompanies the photograph states: "Portrait above — ...
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Living Room at Black Point

Date: 1942
Description: Two tall bookcases stand against the far wall in the living room at Black Point. A portrait of Conrad Seipp hangs on that wall. A large bouquet in a tall v...
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Dining Sunroom

Date: 1925
Description: Light is pouring through tall windows into the "dining sunroom" of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. There is a trellis and folia...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: An interior view, looking south, of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. An electric light is hanging from the co...
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Herbert Brumder Reading

Date: 12 1916
Description: Herber Paul Brumder (1885-1967) relaxing in an easy chair with his crossed legs on an ottoman as he is reading the Germania Herold newspaper. There ...
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Margaret Brumder

Date: 1917
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert) Brumder (1893-1970) sitting on the arm of an easy chair near the bow window of her home at 2030 E. Lafayette Place. Her left ...
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Christmas Eve

Date: 12 24 1923
Description: A large Christmas tree fills the bay window in the dining room of Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. There are Christmas gifts arranged around the tree, and ...
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Birthday Boy

Date: 11 22 1923
Description: Philip George Brumder, sitting in a high chair on the left, and his sister Barbara, sitting on the right, watch intently as their mother, Margaret Bouer (M...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1924
Description: A tall, lighted Christmas tree stands in the dining room of the Herbert P. Brumder family residence, 2030 East Lafayette Place. Glass ornaments and tinsel ...

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