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La Crosse Riverfront

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Riverfront from Pettibone Park, La Crosse, Wis." There are three steamboats docked on the right in the harbor. A mother and her children ar...
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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 Holding Fish

Date: 1910
Description: Family lined up and holding fish on what appears to be a lake shore. From left: Fred Taylor, Donna Taylor Adams, Ellen Taylor Higgins, unidentified boy, T...
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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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Mother and Children by Stream

Date: 1905
Description: Alma Reinhardt Taylor posed on rocks near a stream with her daughters Ellen Taylor Higgins and Donna Taylor Adams (front).
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Jessie and Fred Thwaites

Date: 06 07 1894
Description: Jessie Thwaites poses next to two huge logs, upon which Fredrik stands. Behind them is the Saline River.
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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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Hattie Taylor and Daughter Tannisse

Date: 1912
Description: Hattie Taylor and daughter Tannisse walk under a Milwaukee park culvert.
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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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Mrs. Brandel and Two Women

Date: 06 1927
Description: Mrs. Brandel (center) with two other women posing on and near a tree stump on a lawn. There is a building and water in the background.
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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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Fishing with the Boys

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Description: Elizabeth Olson, her sons, and another boy, in canoes owned by the Border Lakes Wilderness Outfitting Company. This photograph was probably taken for publi...
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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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