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Sausage Making at the Fiebelkorn Farm

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Description: Three generations of the Fiebelkorn family make sausage in the family farm kitchen. On the table is a sausage stuffing implement, a meat grinder, and a sau...
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Fiebelkorn Living Area

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Description: Interior of William Fiebelkorn's home. Next to a window with lace curtains at the window is a rack with a display of photographs or postcards. There is a t...
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William Fiebelkorn Home

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Description: William Fiebelkorn's family sit together in a sitting room. The two children pose with toys. There is a stuffed animal near William's feet. Anna Fiebelkorn...
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Old Wade House; Front Parlor

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the front parlor, with mannequins of women dressed in period clothing sitting in chairs. Text on reverse reads: "The Front Parlor...
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Old Wade House; Upstairs Sitting Room

Date: 1956
Description: Color postcard of the upstairs parlor, with two women wearing period dress sitting in chairs and reading. Text on reverse reads: "UPSTAIRS SITTING ROOM,...
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Old Wade House; Green Parlor

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the Green Parlor, with a mannequin of a man in period dress sitting in a chair. Text on reverse reads: "The Green Parlor or sitti...
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Old Wade House; Kitchen

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the kitchen. A woman wearing period clothing is sitting by a spinning wheel near the woodstove and fireplace. Text on reverse rea...
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Old Wade House; Summer Kitchen

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of a mannequin of a women wearing period dress ironing in the summer kitchen. Dried corn is strung up near the ceiling. Text on reve...
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Old Wade House; Dining Room

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the dining room with the table set with dinnerware. Text on reverse reads: "The Dining Room tables are set with the original iron...
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Old Wade House; Spare Bedroom

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Description: Text on reverse reads: "On the second floor landing of the back stairs is a 'spare' bedroom with its trundle bed. Early travelers' accounts describe Wade H...
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Old Wade House; Grey Parlor

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the Grey Parlor. Text on reverse reads: "The Grey Parlor with the adjoining bedroom beyond the open door was the Hollis Wade suit...
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Wade House; Barroom

Date: 1953
Description: Kodachrome postcard of the barroom, with two male mannequins in period dress standing at the bar. Text on reverse reads: "The Wade House is one of the f...
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Wade House; Ballroom

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the Wade House ballroom. Text on reverse reads: "The Ballroom was the scene of dances, concerts, shows and lectures, a social cen...
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Wade House; Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the interior of the blacksmith shop. Text on reverse reads: "In the blacksmith shop the giant bellows and forge are in fully oper...
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Butternut House; Living Room

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the Butternut House living room. Text on reverse reads: "The living room in Butternut House reflects the more luxurious furnishin...
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Butternut House; Parlor

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Description: Text on reverse reads: "The parlor in Butternut House contains ingrain carpeting, a tufted green velvet chair and two portraits from the original Wade Coll...
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Butternut House; Dining Room

Date: 1956
Description: Three women in period clothes are having tea in the dining room. Text on reverse reads: "Dining Room, Butternut House, Old Wade House State Park, Greenb...
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Waelderhaus Stube (Living Room)

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a living room, with fireplace, spinning wheel, chairs, benches and other furniture. Caption on back reads: "Stube (living roo...
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Werkzimmer (Work Room) in Waelderhaus

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the Waelderhaus work room. There is a desk on the left, with two framed prints above it. There is an Austrian Kachelofen (til...
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First United Lutheran Church

Date: 1963
Description: Text on reverse reads: "First United Lutheran Church, 2401 Kohler Memorial Drive, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 53081." Three views of a Lutheran Church, one panor...

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