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Majorette with Baton

Date: 04 29 1963
Description: Rose Sorenson is waving her baton with one arm, while her other arm is in a sling.
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Dedication of Service Flag and Honor Board

Date: 08 18 1918
Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd in a public space. A man wearing a suit is standing on what may be a wagon, and he appears to be addressing the crowd. A ...
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Policing the Grounds

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: View of a woman crouching down and pulling weeds from a flower bed and putting them into a bushel basket. Caption reads: "Policing the grounds was the assi...
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The Linen Closet

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: One woman is handing folded linens to another woman while they are standing in a large closet. Caption reads: "The linen closet received a thorough going o...
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John Merker and His Grandmother

Date: 1915
Description: John Merker (1900-1961), dressed in straw hat, bib overalls and a work shirt, is holding a pipe in his left hand. He is wearing a fake beard. His grandmoth...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: A young man with cap and light-colored tie is sitting in the stern of a sailboat with five young women. He has his arms around two of the women; two others...
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Christmas Card

Date: 1965
Description: The inside group portrait and handprinted greeting of a French fold Christmas card from "The Brumders." The well-dressed family is standing and holding han...
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Deutscher Press Club

Date: 07 1906
Description: An informal group portrait of members of the Milwaukee Deutscher Press Club and others, taken at Villa Henriette (mistakenly labeled "Villa Brumder"), the ...
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Train Wreck

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o...
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Bavarian Costume

Date: 07 01 1965
Description: One man and two women are posing holding glasses on the steps at the entrance of a building. One woman is sitting on a stone planter. Caption reads: "'W...
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Cousins

Date: 1925
Description: Barbara Brumder, left, posing with her cousins Mary Baldwin Messinger, center, and Joanne Beecher Messinger, right. The girls are wearing similar ethnic Ge...
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Elm Grove Women's Club Style Show

Date: 03 27 1958
Description: Three women are standing together, with two of them wearing dresses and one woman wearing a blouse and skirt. Two of the women are looking at the third, wh...
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New Doll

Date: 08 30 1928
Description: Barbara Brumder, daughter of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, posing standing outdoors holding a large doll, a gift for her tenth birthday. The doll ...
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Margaret Brumder

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing sitting outdoors on a rustic lawn chair. She is wearing a broad headband, sweater, and short skirt, with ...
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Picnic

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: Mararet Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far left, and her son Philip, third from left, join other friends or relatives gathered around a large fallen log ...
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Children in Costume

Date: 1910
Description: Nine children, members of the extended Brumder family, posing in traditional German costume, including lederhosen, felt caps and "Loferl" stockings for the...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman posing among flowers in a border along the fenced tennis court near the summer home of Herbert P. Brumder at Pine Lake. She is wearin...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1922
Description: An unidentified young woman, left, is holding Barbara Brumder on her lap in the stern of a sailboat. A second young woman is holding a sheet (rope) with as...
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Brumder Family on Porch

Date: 1920
Description: Herman Otto Brumder, lower right, holding his niece, Barbara Brumder, at the foot of the front steps at Villa Henrietta, the summer home on Pine Lake built...

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