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| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A view of the southeast corner of the dining room in the main house at Black Point, showing a china cabinet and tea table. The cabinet holds pieces of Cath... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline with Lake Monona on the left. A fence runs along the slope, and beyond is a small white building and behind, at the top of the hill, F... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, owner of Black Point Estate, poses seated in a green wicker chair on the porch of the main house. Standing behind her on the left an... |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Benjamin Franklin Hopkins house, 142 East Gilman Street, built by Hopkins about 1850. The house was later owned by Dr. Willi... |
| Date: | 05 23 1963 |
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| Description: | The 104-year old Vilas Mansion at 12 Gilman Street is demolished to make way for the new National Guardian Life Insurance Co. building. The house was built... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men posing in a field at an estate. On the left a man is sitting on a horse-drawn mower. A man in a suit and hat is standing in the center, and on th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men, one driving a horse-drawn mower, and one driving a horse-drawn dump rake, are posing in a large open field with a mansion in the background. |
| Date: | 07 31 1969 |
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| Description: | Left to right, Zika Bakieff Petersen, Gladys Zimmerman, and Alma Schmidt Petersen pose with the dog, Bamboo, on the porch at Black Point Estate. The three ... |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the first floor of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, an... |
| Date: | 11 07 1991 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of First Ladies of Wisconsin taken at the Executive Residence. Left to right: Sheila Coyle Earl; Dorothy Knowles Braun; Carrie Lee Dotson Ne... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the basement of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, and w... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original "Section-through-Centre-of-House-from-West-to-East" drawing of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the second story of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the third story of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, an... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | On the left a man is posing with a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In the distance across fields and fences is a large estate. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man on horse-drawn binder on the lawn of an estate. A large brick building is in the background. On the left is a fence-lined road wit... |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the front of the house at 530 N. Pinckney Street, which was built by Magnus Swenson. By 1922 it was occupied by the Delta Kappa Ep... |
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| Description: | View from street of the house at 530 N. Pinckney Street, which was built by Magnus Swenson. By 1922 it was occupied by the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from street of the Magnus Swenson house at 530 N. Pinckney Street. This house was sold to a fraternity and later demolished. |
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