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Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
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Tennis Champion

Date: 11 08 1934
Description: University of Wisconsin coed, Cecil McLaren, from Cincinnati, Ohio, co-champion in Western girls' doubles and finalist in National girls' tournament, demon...
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New York University

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Description: A view of the campus, taken from a high vantage point. A tree-lined pathway dominates the foreground and a path intersects it. People walk on the main pa...
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Tennis Court

Date: 1912
Description: The tennis court at the Hotz Fish Creek compound is surrounded by a low stone wall and tall posts. Outside the wall at the far left corner of the lawn is a...
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Group Playing Lawn Tennis

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Description: Two men and two women playing lawn tennis. Behind them is the front of a small church, a large two-story house and other wooden buildings in the far backgr...
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Tennis at the Birchcliff Hotel

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Description: Two men playing tennis on the Birchcliff Hotel tennis court. Another group of guests are playing croquet on the lawn in the background. People relax on cha...
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Group of People Playing Croquet

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Description: People playing croquet on a lawn next to tennis courts. In the background on the left, people are relaxing under trees across the road. Cottages are in the...
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Exterior View of McCormick Works Club House

Date: 06 19 1907
Description: Elevated view over fence of the McCormick Works Club House. There are tennis courts in the left foreground. A man is standing at the door of the club on th...
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Fairchild House Tennis Court

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: Elevated view of the grass tennis court from the yard of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Trees, plan...
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Entertaining at Villa Louis

Date: 1898
Description: Dousman family entertaining house guests on the lawn at Villa Louis. A table and chairs are set up on the grass and several of the group are holding baseba...
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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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Tennis Courts at King's Gateway Hotel

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Description: View of women playing tennis on a lawn court next to a parking lot. Caption reads: "Tennis Courts at King's Gateway Hotel — Land O' Lakes, Wis."
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Bob and Faye Becker

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing together on the lawn in front of a tennis court and a house. The man is sitting in a reclining lawn chair, and the woman...
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Tennis Court

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder is standing on a tennis court on the left, opposite her daughter, Barbara, who is wearing a shirt and slacks. Ther...
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Margaret Brumder

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing sitting outdoors on a rustic lawn chair. She is wearing a broad headband, sweater, and short skirt, with ...
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Mary Livingston Griggs by the Tennis Court

Date: 1956
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan...
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Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore." Two men playing tennis on the lawn at a resort on Big Cedar Lake. Trees and the lake are in the backgr...

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