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Winter Iceboat on Lake Monona

Date: 1918
Description: Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones and his mother, Georgia Lloyd Jones, look at an iceboat on frozen Lake Monona. Houses along the north shore are in the backgrou...
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Mrs. Theodore Statz and Daughter Cindy in Yard

Date: 09 18 1948
Description: Mrs. Theodore Statz and her 6-month old daughter Cindy in the yard of their basement apartment at 425 West Wilson Street. They are soon to be evicted becau...
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Alma Reinhardt Taylor

Date: 1915
Description: Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin...
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J. Robert Taylor Family on Pier

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Description: J. Robert Taylor's wife, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, and children, Donna Taylor Adams, Ellen Taylor Higgins, and Fred Taylor, posed in bathing suits on a small ...
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Mrs. William T. (Mary Jane) Swenson and Her Daughters

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Pictured in the garden at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foster K. Thomas, 1515 Morrison Street, are Mrs. William T. (Mary Jane) Swenson and her two...
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Mrs. Delmar (Dorothy) Brown, Jr., and Her Son, Delmar III

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: Pictured in the home of her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Norman Wang, 1225 Rutledge Street, are Mrs. Delmar (Dorothy) Brown Jr., and her nine month old son, Delma...
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Brandel Women and Friend in Bathing Suits

Date: 1925
Description: Mary Brandel, her mother, and a friend pose together wearing bathing suits. Trees and a lake are behind them, and the shadow of the photographer can be see...
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Everetta and Ada Bass

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass, holding a basket of flowers, and her mother Ada on a hill by the mill pond (Montello Lake). The far shoreline of the lake can be seen in the...
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Attic Angel Association Spring Luncheon

Date: 05 23 1951
Description: Mrs. Harley Graf and her hard-of-hearing son, Bobby, have lunch with Mrs. George C. (Dorothy) Guild on the lawn of Mrs. S.L. Odegard's residence on Lake Me...
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David & Florence Bade Residence

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Living room of the David & Florence Bade residence at 5701 Winnequah Road in Frost Woods, Monona. Mrs. Bade and one of her two sons are sitting on a pale y...
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Elizabeth Johnson Pfeifer and Son

Date: 07 13 1953
Description: Elizabeth Johnson Pfeifer, Milwaukee, and her nine month old son, John Stephan Jr.
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Summer Vistors

Date: 06 15 1954
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Suzanne Schmidt with her three children. Left to right: Deborah, Erwin III, and Susan. They are seated in the backyard at the hom...
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United Givers Fund Campaign

Date: 07 30 1954
Description: Cub Scouts roasting marshmallows with Aleen Plater, United Givers' Division head. Left to right: Mrs. Plater, Steve Plater, Joey MacDonald, Larry Frohmade...
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee

Date: 02 20 1960
Description: A Madison couple, Karen and Larry Slotta, solved the babysitting problem at the Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. They put their 7 1/2 mon...
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Along Lake Winneconne

Date: 1910
Description: Wearing a long, white dress, white shoes and a large, ribboned hat, Mary Ansorge poses on a large stone on the rocky bank of Lake Winneconne. Her daughter,...
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Sue Ann Hackett with Friends

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs. Includes dock on lake, with distant shoreline, Sue Ann with a friend and her mother, o...
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Children in Rowboat

Date: 1928
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, standing on the shore of Geneva Lake at Black Point, steadies a rowboat with her three sons and two other boys in it. Conrad Peterse...
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The Richter Family

Date: 1905
Description: View across water towards Charles S. Richter rowing a boat on the mill pond, now Montello Lake. With him are his wife, sitting at right, his daughter Ethel...
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Caroline Turner with Children

Date: 1896
Description: Caroline Mae Sherwood Turner, wife of Frederick Jackson Turner, with their children Dorothy Kinsley Turner, Jackson Allen Turner, and Mae Sherwood Turner a...

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