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Tank Cottage in the Spring

Date: 1910
Description: View across lawn towards the front of the cottage. Train cars are in the background. On the original site on the west side of the Fox River, before restora...
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Middleton Place

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Description: View of a brick cottage with ivy in a clearing as seen from a small dirt road through the woods. The road is bordered by flowering azalea bushes and the Sp...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: View across lawn toward Cottage U. Shrubs grow close to the porch, with tress in the lawn. A chair is on the upper veranda.
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: A view of the cottages, from the lawn. All the facades face inward onto this lawn lined with trees and shrubs. A woman sits on the porch on the cottage to ...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: A view of the facade of Cottage T. Women and children sit on the porch. The covered walkway is on both sides of the cottage. In front of the building is a...
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Chautauqua Grounds

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Chautauqua Grounds, founded in 1874. A log cottage stands on the left, and another wooden cottage can be seen on the right. Caption reads: "Cot...
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Paradise Row

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Description: View uphill towards the long building. Sets of stairs lead to a porch connecting numerous cottages at Paradise Row. The cottages were built around 1800.
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Cottages at Underwood Point

Date: 1870
Description: View toward three cottages along the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake at Underwood Point. Small docks with boats are along the shoreline. A wooden bench with...
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The Home Cottage

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Description: A cyanotype of the Home Cottage tipped into a commercially produced album of the Hillside Home School.
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Ohnstein Cottage

Date: 1931
Description: View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se...
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Cottage at Black Point

Date: 1905
Description: An exterior view of the cottage built on the Black Point Estate in 1905. There are several screened porches and large awnings over the main floor windows. ...
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Catherine Seipp

Date: 1910
Description: Catherine Orb Seipp stands on the lawn at Black Point, near one of the porches of the 1905 "cottage." She is wearing a summer dress with bold bands of dark...
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Bartholomay House

Date: 1975
Description: A front view of the "cottage" built on the Black Point Estate in 1905 by Catherine Orb Seipp, the widow of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp who had built their ...
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Studebaker in Front of Cottage

Date: 1917
Description: A Studebaker automobile is parked on the brick drive in front of the 1905 cottage at Black Point Estate. The side and front porches on the first floor are ...
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Blue Bird Cottage

Date: 1945
Description: A simple wood frame cottage is built into the slope of the hill above Geneva Lake at Holiday Home Camp. A second building is seen in the background.
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Bayview Cottages, Lake Arbutus

Date: 1951
Description: Cottages among the pines at Lake Arbutus. Caption reads: "Bayview Cottages, Lake Arbutus, Hatfield, Wis."
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Rose Lodge, Lake Ripley

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Description: View towards a cottage nestled among the trees. In the foreground a tennis net is stretched across the sloped lawn. Caption reads: "Rose Lodge — Lake Riple...
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Herman and Muggsy

Date: 1920
Description: Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) standing on the boat landing of the Pine Lake home built by his father, George Brumder. Herman is holding a treat for his ...
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Cottage

Date: 1926
Description: A cottage with a stone wing built at a right angle to a log wing is standing in dappled shade. Between the two wings is a gabled, stone projection. A large...
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Beloit Park, Lake Kegonsa

Date: 08 03 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Beloit Park, Lake Kegonsa, Stoughton, Wis." A park area with trees and a lawn. Cottages with screened porches are on the left.

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