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View from the Garden Room at Taliesin

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Description: View of garden from window of the Garden Room at Talisien. In the foreground is a table with a large vase on the left. Taliesin is located in the vicinity ...
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Taliesin I Trellis and Plants in Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I courtyard showing the trellis, plants, and rubble stone fireplace outside the workroom. The independent apartment entrance is at the left.
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York Hall

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Description: Exterior view of York Hall, also known as Nelson House, built in 1730 in the Georgian style by "Scotch Tom" Nelson. In the foreground, the gardens can be ...
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Brookside

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Description: Exterior view of Brookside, the luxurious estate of Mr. W.H. Walker. A grand double staircase leads to a fountain in the garden. Published by J.J. Cunningh...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Some Bare Spots

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with examples of yards in need of gardens at the Vitale and Annie Gambino homes, and a spot...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Pertzborn Girls

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Alice, Rachel, and Barbara Pertzborn posing by their garden in the front corner of ...
Photograph

General Lee's Headquarters

Date: 06 1863
Description: Stereograph of General Lee's headquarters at Gettysburg, photographed by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. Two women appear on the lower right.
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Filling Station

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Description: View from street of the Standard Oil filling station with Red Crown gasoline pumps. Two attendants are standing near an entrance with a sign for a postal t...
Photograph

Home Hotel

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Description: View from unpaved road of the "Home Hotel," a two-story wood frame building with a balcony and a porch. Several flowers are planted in the garden and in po...
Photograph

Catholic Parsonage

Date: 1913
Description: View from street of front of parsonage, a large two-story house with a gabled roof and a porch. There is a garden and stable behind the parsonage, and in t...
Postcard

Residence of D.P. Lameraux

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a stone mansion surrounded by a stone fence. Caption reads: "Residence of D.P. Lameraux, Beaver Dam, Wis."
Print

Fountain Spring House Supper Menu

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Description: One-page menu from the Fountain Spring House, with a view of lush foliage and visitors strolling in the park adjacent to the hotel framed against a scene o...
Photograph

Three Women Sitting on the Porch of Professor Allen's House

Date: 1902
Description: Three women are sitting on the porch steps of Professor Allen's home, located on Langdon Street. Two of the women hold hand fans in their lap.
Drawing

Bonsai

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Description: Colored ink drawing of a bonsai from The House on the Rock, colored with felt pen in orange, green, brown and yellow. The small tree is sitting in front of...
Book or Pamphlet

Olds' Catalog Cover Design

Date: 1932
Description: The cover design of Olds' Catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The subtitle reads: "Tells the Truth." The illustration features a melon cut in half, and veg...
Drawing

Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...
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Mid-Century Modern Home Back Porch and Yard

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Description: External view across lawn towards the backside of a mid-century modern home. The angle shows the split-level design, marked by wood siding and stone suppor...

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