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Lucien Stanley Hanks Residence

Date: 11 11 1925
Description: This red brick Italianate residence located at 216 Langdon Street, was built in 1870 for Lucien Stanley Hanks, a prominent Madison banker and civic leader,...
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South Madison

Date: 1909
Description: View from the University of Wisconsin service building smokestack of south Madison, including Mills Street, Mound Street, and the Greenbush. Lake Monona is...
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Ott-Wright House

Date: 1920
Description: The house was built in the late 1850s or early 1860s by Donnel and Kutzbock, who also built the first Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Originally this h...
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Mason Street

Date: 1889
Description: Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a...
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Jenk and Dick by Clubhouse

Date: 1918
Description: Jenkin and Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones stand in front their "clubhouse" on the north shore of Lake Monona.
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Log Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: View of a log cabin with large glass windows overlooking a lake.
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Large Residence in Valley

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Description: View of a large residence surrounded by trees. The mansion sits on a large piece of property with a pond, and a mountainous countryside is in the distance.
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Charles A. Angells Residence

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Description: Residence of Charles A. Angells. The coastline is in the background.
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Resort Home

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Description: A view of a two-story resort home and yard. A small water well with a wooden roof is on the right.
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J.C. Hubinger Residence

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Description: View across pond toward the J.C. Hubinger mansion. Two stag statues stand by the pond. J.C. Hubinger, a prominent Iowa businessman, opened a starch factory...
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Dering's Yard

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Description: View of Dering's yard on Green Lake. The yard features outdoor furniture on the lawn among trees, and boats are docked along a pier behind them.
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Sturgeon Bay, Seen from the Town of Sawyer

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Description: Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay with houses in the foreground.
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View of Sturgeon Bay from The Town of Sawyer

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Description: Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay showing commercial and domestic buildings in the foreground. Photograph made between 1916-1928.
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Well

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Description: Photographic postcard view of an old wooden well. Tulips line the sidewalk near the well. Residential houses, trees and yards are in the background.
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Wetherby Cranberry Company Farm

Date: 09 09 1922
Description: The farmhouse of the Wetherby Cranberry Company. At the time the farmhouse was owned by H. Kissinger. In the foreground is the corner of the water reservoi...
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Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
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Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
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Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...
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Man at Water Pump

Date: 1965
Description: A man hand pumps water in the yard outside of White Station Freedom House. "In all the rural Freedom Houses (and all rural houses) wells and outhous...
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Russian Village Well

Date: 1918
Description: A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia.

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