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Interior of Pond House

Date: 1920
Description: Interior view of home, perhaps taken through an open window. The sash and sill are in the foreground. A woman is sitting on the piano bench in front of a g...
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Mendota Beach School

Date: 1922
Description: View from front of classroom of children sitting in desks at the elementary school health program, blowing their noses.
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Middleton High School Orchestra

Date: 12 10 1928
Description: Members of the Middleton High School orchestra pose for a group portrait with their instruments.
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Middleton High School Orchestra

Date: 12 10 1928
Description: Middleton High School orchestra performing in front of stage with painted fire screen.
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Kilowatt Clubhouse

Date: 10 17 1928
Description: Interior of Kilowatt clubhouse on Lake Monona. There is a piano along the back wall. A sign painted along a beam on the ceiling reads: "To err is Human — t...
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Council Room in Memorial Union

Date: 10 12 1928
Description: Council room in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union.
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Phi Gamma Delta Dining Room

Date: 10 02 1928
Description: Phi Gamma Delta fraternity dining room, from great hall and lower hall from dining room, 16 Langdon Street.
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Phi Gamma Delta Dining Room

Date: 10 02 1928
Description: Direct view of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity dining room from Great Hall, 16 Langdon Street.
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East High School Cast of "Seventeen"

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: East High School cast on stage in a scene from "Seventeen."
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Holy Redeemer School Orchestra

Date: 06 06 1927
Description: Group portrait of the Holy Redeemer school orchestra, 128 W. Johnson Street. On the wall in the background is a large mural surrounding a painting.
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Orpheum Theater Interior

Date: 04 02 1927
Description: Elevated view from left side of stage of the new Orpheum Theater interior, showing the stage, orchestra pit, auditorium and balcony. A sign on the right si...
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Brown's Piano Truck

Date: 1921
Description: A driver sitting in the cab of an International piano delivery truck for Brown's Store. In the back of the truck are two large wooden crates, one presumabl...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928-Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: Living Room of the 1928 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin, showing health carpet, tan murescoed wall, fireplace with wrought iron fire set, della rob...
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Leo Capser Playing Piano on Old Mission Dock

Date: 1920
Description: Leo Capser, founder of the Madeline Island Historical Museum, sitting on a bench playing piano on the Old Mission Dock at Madeline Island.
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McCormick Works Banquet Hall

Date: 1929
Description: A hall, possibly at the McCormick Works Club House, decorated with vases of flowers, long tables laid with place settings, and chairs set up for a banquet ...
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Hotel Pfister Mezzanine Floor

Date: 1920
Description: Mezzanine Floor (Interior). A flight of stairs is going up the left side of the image. Several chairs are set up overlooking the balcony. Various statues ...
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Dorothy Phillips and Rudolph Valentino, Scene Still

Date: 1920
Description: Dorothy Phillips, as Aurora Meredith, receives a bouquet of roses from Rudolph Valentino, playing Juliantino Visconti, from the 1920 Universal production <...
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Woman at Keyboard

Date: 1920
Description: A woman in an old style dress stands in profile by a keyboard instrument, with her left knee resting on a Gothic Revival chair. A candle is burning in a br...
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Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: A view of the living room in the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese, looking toward the front entry hall. There is a grand piano in the front o...
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Library at Saint Joseph's Academy of Maine

Date: 1920
Description: Interior of a small library at Saint Joseph's Academy of Maine, opened in 1912. Chairs are gathered around a table near bookcases. In the room are religiou...

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