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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Hatleberg family playing croquet in front of their stone upright and wing house, two miles east of DeForest near the present day intersection of Muelle... |
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| Description: | View from road of woman standing next to a chair on the porch of a wooden frame house behind a fence and a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Recently constructed residential housing as viewed from a hill. A fence is in the foreground. Porches, backyards, and small garages lead down to the Villag... |
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| Description: | A man and four children stand in front of Edwards Tower Cottage. The cottage is built in the style of a lighthouse. |
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| Description: | Residence of Charles A. Angells. The coastline is in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View of residence of Colonel William Jennings Bryan. William Jennings Bryan served as secretary of state and was a presidential nominee, as well as the law... |
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| Description: | Abbeville cotton mill home. View of home, porch and front yard. |
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| Description: | View of the front of a home, porch and yard in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company. An archway covered with ivy is in front of the home. |
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| Description: | A view of a small home and yard. Flowering ivy covers the home, and several flowering plants are in the front yard. One cat sits on the walk and another si... |
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| Description: | A woman and two children sit in the porch area of their home. One of the children plays on a rocking horse. A groomed yard and flowering shrubs are in fr... |
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| Description: | A man, two women and a little boy sit in the porch and garden area of a home. Fairmont was a company town of Consolidated Coal Company. Flowering plants ar... |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children sit on the porch of The Elms, a two-story house with an American flag flying from the porch roof. Tree stumps are in the fr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from street of Willms home, 2025 S. 31st Street, Milwaukee. Home of Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) and her daughters Anna (b. 1881) and Emma (189... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east; the bluff rises on the left, the harbor is on the right. The cottage in the foreground with pergola and lattice ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east. The photographer's first Fish Creek cottage, with a standing seam metal roof, is in the foreground; in the yard ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith's home at 118 E Scott, which is a corner lot close to the tree-lined road. Rocking chairs sit on the front porch. |
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