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| Date: | 06 08 1935 |
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| Description: | J. Frank Kessenich house, 205 Lakewood Boulevard, Lakewood subdivision. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background. |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, with white rope showing where new road will require the cutting down of l... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Street south from Doty Street with trees lining the street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A child peddles his tricycle on a sidewalk at the end of a cul de sac in his Greendale neighborhood with houses lining the street. |
| Date: | 06 1972 |
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| Description: | View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William ... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A large barn and outbuilding on the Quaker Oats farm, 4202 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior of two-story house with brick work on front corner. There is an enclosed patio extending from the house towards the front drive. A street lamp is ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two freshly built two-story houses in a clearing with trees. Both have small, covered back patios. There are no driveways or shrubbery in place yet. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a freshly built two-story house located at 293 East Orchard Court. The house has a covered patio. There is no driveway in place yet, and a fres... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A car is parked on the street in front of a row of houses. Children are playing in the front yards. There is a large tree in the foreground. Men are workin... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four children, one boy and three girls, playing on a a swing set outside of a brick building, probably a school. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two picnic tables in a clearing at picnic grove. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Wildflowers next to the side yard and the front steps of a house. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat, shirt, and tie is driving a gas-powered riding lawnmower. |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a tractor outfitted with a rotating brush device clearing snow from a fenced-in ice rink with overhead lights. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a tie stands next to an industrial trailer used for clearing of land. The side of the trailer reads "BROS" and there are other vehicles in th... |
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| Description: | A man in a hat and overalls leans over a trench or ditch digger, looking down into the excavated area. Pipes, an automobile, and a building are in the back... |
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| Description: | Thirteen men, all wearing hats, standing in a row in front of trucks and a tractor in a lot near an industrial building and chain link fence. Probably serv... |
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