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| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | The stone council circle in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It was built by noted landscape architect and bereaved father, Jens Jensen, as a... |
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| Description: | The entrance to the garden framed by a decorative wooden gate. |
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| Description: | Classical stone memorial with six columns to the memory of Jennie Higbee, founder and principal of a local school for girls. Located in Overton Park which ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A foursquare style house with front and back porches sits on a large landscaped lot with a decorative fence and painted pergola. The house, at 220 Eighth S... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view north along Clark Street with pedestrians, street cars, trucks and automobiles. Lincoln Park is on the right; the Belden Stratford Hotel is o... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A garden in late summer with dahlias and marigolds at the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The house, a brick wall and decorative fence encl... |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | View from road of front entrance of the Speedwell Farm. Original caption reads: "Desirable farm entrance -- neat and reasonably constructed. Also showing t... |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Backyard garden and fence of farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down a wide, tree-lined neighborhood street. Well-maintained lawns and houses can be seen on the left. A man with a reel mower is working in a yard, a... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from a rural road to a farmhouse demonstrating its landscaping and what the original caption describes as a "novel fence." The large barn in the backg... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Farmhouse with landscaping of shrubbery. Original caption reads: "Nice possibilities, poor arrangement, no planting plan." |
| Date: | 09 1928 |
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| Description: | Backyard landscaping, including a decorative fence, in a residential neighborhood demonstrates its extensive planning and upkeep. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior of cottage and garden landscaping on the Katherine Legge Memorial Farm. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of the gate and gatehouse at Hillside cemetery. Caption reads: "Hillside Cemetery, Whitewater, Wis." |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of a house surrounded by gardens, an evergreen shelter belt and ornamental hedges. |
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| Description: | View of the Horatio Hollis Hunnewell Gardens, begun in 1843. A body of water is separated from an unpaved pathway by a stone fence, and trees are trimmed t... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across lawn with a well-manicured yard with sculpted shrubs towards a three-story wooden house. Identified as the Spaulding residenc... |
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