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Trimpey Studio Article

Date: 08 1925
Description: A brief article describing the new studio of photographer E.B. Trimpey, including photographs of the front and rear of the building. There is a landscaped ...
Photograph

Woods Manor on Madeline Island

Date: 1938
Description: View of the two-story, wood shingle, lake shore home, Woods Manor, a part of Nebraska Row on Madeline Island. In the foreground is a swimming pool surround...
Photograph

Shelling Peas

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, far right, and children, from left, Margaret, Alice, Helen, and Ferdinand Leonard, in a rustic gazebo on the grounds of...
Drawing

Formal Garden Blueprint for Stonework at Riven Rock

Date: 1900
Description: Blueprint of the stone seat, outside elevation of Gate "Y," rear of fountain at end of basin, and elevation of Gate "Z" for Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock ...
Drawing

Elevation of Gate "X" Blueprint for Riven Rock

Date: 1900
Description: Blueprint showing the elevation of Gate "X" for Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock estate at El Montecito, Santa Barbara, California. The blueprint shows a vie...
Photograph

Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters Building

Date: 1971
Description: View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building from across Library Mall. A woman and child are sitting on the edge of the William ...
Photograph

Parks Landscaping Fund

Date: 10 06 1960
Description: A $250 check is presented to Professor C.A. DeDeurwaeder, right, to help with a project aimed at the development of landscaping themes for parks. The grant...
Photograph

Stone Fireplace and Landscaped Area

Date: 1935
Description: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) used Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to build a stone fireplace and landscape an area in Wyalusing State Park (fo...
Drawing

Monona Lake Front Development Plan

Date: 07 1939
Description: An architectural rendering of a proposed lakefront development plan.
Map or Atlas

Landscape Plan for Floyd Place and Catlin Place, Lake Forest, Madison, Wis.

Date: 1918
Description: This is a collection of two maps. One map is blue line print that includes illustrations and shows the location of buildings, gardens, plant life, and spri...
Photograph

Manicured Grounds

Date: 1900
Description: View across manicured grounds and intertwining paths. Buildings are in the far background. On the right are buildings along a road.
Photograph

Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 1955
Description: A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an...
Photograph

New York State Building on Grounds

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across manicured lawns. A flag is on a flagpole on the left. On the far right is a building with a sign on the roof that reads: "New York Sta...
Historical Object

Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: An album page decorated with a watercolor painting of blue flowers and green stems featuring four views of the Frank B. Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A c...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A corner view of the Frank B. Fargo house is centered on the onion-domed polygonal tower. The open, wrap-around two-story porch features paired columns, ba...
Photograph

Champion Boxelder

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Acer negundo judged in 1979 to be the largest known example in Wisconsin. The tree is standing on a lawn at Green Gables, part of the ...
Photograph

Large Home with Manicured Lawn

Date: 06 30 1926
Description: View across manicured lawn towards a large house with two-story columns.
Photograph

Three Women Posing in front of Large Home

Date: 06 30 1926
Description: View across lawn towards three women posing in front of a large home with a manicured lawn.
Photograph

Inside the Mitchell Park Conservatory

Date: 1967
Description: A man and woman are walking along a dirt path near a gazebo. Flowers and trees and bushes are growing inside the horticultural conservatory.
Photograph

Mitchell Park Conservatory

Date: 1969
Description: View towards the three glass domes at the Mitchell Park Conservatory. In the foreground three people are walking up a stairway on the grounds of the park. ...

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