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Maple Tree Trunks

Date: 07 05 1964
Description: A cluster of maple tree trunks in a shady grove. A wire is strung along the right side of the trees, with a coil of wire leaning against a tree trunk in th...
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Abandoned Log Cabin

Date: 09 01 1963
Description: A view of an abandoned log cabin obscured by plants and trees.
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Madison School Forest

Date: 1960
Description: Hardwood growth in the Madison School Forest.
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Flowering Bush amidst Farmland

Date: 1960
Description: Flowering bush on Rocky Dell Road.
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High View Landscape

Date: 1960
Description: Elevated view of landscape, with large dead birch tree, looking south east near the junction of Highways 19 and 78.
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Early Spring Shrubbery

Date: 1961
Description: Early spring shrubs and blossoms.
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Upland Fields

Date: 1960
Description: Upland fields showing a fence, trees and hillside.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

Date: 
Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.
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Field Along Katzenbeuchel Road

Date: 05 23 1961
Description: Field and hills along Katzenbeuchel Road. There is a fence in the foreground.
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Small Domed Hill

Date: 05 24 1961
Description: View of small domed hill on Highway 19, surrounded by fields.
Photograph

Tree in the Valley

Date: 06 25 1964
Description: Single tree in the valley meadow below Stewart park. A small loop of a stream is to the right of the tree. A wooded hill is in the background.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

Date: 
Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

Date: 
Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

Date: 
Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...

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