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Rocky Roost

Date: 1905
Description: Rocky Roost, the Lamp family cottage, located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota, decorated for a party. Shown from the left are Matilda Lamp Lueder...
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Rocky Roost

Date: 1913
Description: Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: Elevated view of the back of the house and an outbuilding with numerous windows. A dirt path runs around the outbuilding, with a small planting of flowers ...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: View down driveway toward the house. The dirt path diverges on both sides of the house, leaving a grassy area that includes flowers, a fountain, trees, and...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: View across lawn toward the Cottage, with separate housing next door to the right, and the covered walkway. Two people are walking under the walkway. The s...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: View across lawn toward Cottage U. Shrubs grow close to the porch, with tress in the lawn. A chair is on the upper veranda.
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: A view of the cottages, from the lawn. All the facades face inward onto this lawn lined with trees and shrubs. A woman sits on the porch on the cottage to ...
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: A view of the International Cottage, taken from the side. Chairs are on both porches, and a man stands to the right of the building near shrubs and flowers...
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Vacationers on a Resort Beach

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a beach and houses that line the shore. People sit on the beach, and a woman in the foreground wades in the water.
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Resort Cottages

Date: 1910
Description: A row of two-story cottages line a beach. To the right, two children are playing in and around a hammock hanging on a porch.
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Resort Cottages

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Description: A row of resort cottages as seen through trees in a wooded area. The buildings each have two stories and a gabled roof. The middle structure is a church, a...
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Homeward Bound

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of adults and two children standing next to Island Lodge, just before heading home. In the center is Jim McClure, holding a fishing pole. On...
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Sunday Dinner at Island Lodge

Date: 08 10 1913
Description: Lucy and W.A. Holt, with their family, the Trowbridge family and others, are sitting on the screened porch at Island Lodge for Sunday dinner. A tablecloth ...
Drawing

Brumder Properties

Date: 1929
Description: An unsigned, hand-drawn map of properties owned by members of the Brumder family on the northwest shore of Pine Lake in 1929. Named Villa Henrietta, the pr...
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Germania Statue

Date: 1901
Description: A young man, possibly a son of George Brumder, posing with a long gun near a statue of Germania. The sculpture is mounted on an elaborate stone plinth at V...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: Two upholstered wicker chairs are flanking a matching table in the northwest corner of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at ...
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Boy and Dog

Date: 1920
Description: Edward Brumder holding the attention of his Boston terrier-type dog, who is sitting on the lawn of the Brumder summer house on Pine Lake. There is a lawn r...
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Motor Car (Double Exposure)

Date: 1905
Description: A double exposure featuring an early runabout automobile in front of the summer home of George Brumder at Pine Lake. Brumder, with cap and beard, is seated...
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New House

Date: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, the youngest child of Herbert Paul and Margaret Brouner Brumder, is picking up a brick from a pile on a construction site. The house...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the new shingle style lake house belonging to Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. A tall stone chimney rises near the main entrance, which fe...

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