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Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Photograph

Glenn's Mineral Spring

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph view of Glenn's mineral spring.
Photograph

Glenn's Mineral Spring

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph view of Glenn's mineral spring with a group of people gathered around it.
Photograph

Church

Date: 1895
Description: View across water towards a church.
Photograph

Townsend House Boat House

Date: 1860
Description: Stereograph of the Townsend House boathouse across a lake.
Photograph

Townsend House

Date: 1860
Description: Stereograph of Townsend House. Image includes people sitting on porch, grounds, boat dock.
Photograph

La Belle Lake

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph from east side of La Belle Lake.
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La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
Photograph

Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
Photograph

"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras...
Photograph

"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building...
Photograph

Townsend House Boat House - Anaglyph

Date: 1860
Description: Stereograph of the Townsend House boathouse across a lake.
Photograph

Stereograph View of a Man by a Lake

Date: 1870
Description: Man wearing "stove-pipe" hat, standing looking out over a lake.
Photograph

Lakeside Croquet Game

Date: 1880
Description: Lakeside lawn set up for croquet game and garden pavilion at the estate, "Sunnybank." A man sits in the grass with two children. On the right in the backgr...
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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...
Photograph

Herman Brumder

Date: 1895
Description: Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) modeling a skirted men's swimsuit on a pier at Pine Lake.
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North Lake

Date: 1892
Description: An elevated view of a gently rolling landscape with cows grazing in the middle distance. At right is a farmhouse and outbuildings. Young trees have been pl...
Photograph

Brumder Summer House

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view of Pine Lake and the George Brumder summer house, taken from an observation tower built on a hill on the Brumder property. Many young tree...
Photograph

Summer Day at Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: A view of the Pine Lake property of George Brumder, with the boathouse at far left. The smoke above the boathouse is from a steam water pump. There is a ho...
Photograph

Pine Lake Gardens

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view, looking east, from the wooden tower on George Brumder's Pine Lake property, showing Pine Lake in the center and Beaver Lake beyond. There...

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