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Plant-Covered Front Porch

Date: 1915
Description: Plant-covered front porch and steps of a house. Original caption reads: "National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio."
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Pine Forest Inn

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Description: People sit in rocking chairs on the porch of the Pine Forest Inn. Flowering bushes and shrubs surround the porch and an automobile is driving along the roa...
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Scene From Cardinal's Play

Date: 1875
Description: Costumed students act out a scene from Cardinal's Play outdoors on a lawn near a wooded area at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The college was founded...
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Lutherland Trail Entrance

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Description: View of Lutherland Nature Trail entrance. View features a small wooden bridge beneath a wood archway with a sign that says "Nature Trail". The archway and ...
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Winnebago Indian Woman

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Description: View of a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian woman in traditional dress. The woman stands on stone steps, surrounded by flowers and trees.
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Portrait of Amanda Adams

Date: 12 25 1890
Description: Carte-de-visite of Amanda Joanna McCormick Adams seated in parlor-like setting on Christmas. Mrs. Adams is seated before a framed photograph of a man on th...
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Milbrot Barn — Exterior, View of Short Side

Date: 2004
Description: William Milbrot's parents have lived here since 1953.
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Marilyn Zingsheim Posing in front of the Jaster Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: Marilyn Zingsheim's grandparents, Albert and Mary Meyer, and later her parents, Clarence and Gladys Krapfl, lived here.
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Gravestone of Walter and Ionie Arms

Date: 1960
Description: Walter and Ionie Arms's grave marker in the shade of a tall bush at the Burr Ridge cemetery.
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Flower Garden Border

Date: 1915
Description: A border of herbaceous perennials with a background of shrubs and trees.
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Memorial Wreath: At Rest

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Description: Funeral memorial card of floral wreaths with a banner reading, "AT REST," and an animal tail [?].
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Memorial Wreath: Our Friend

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Description: Funeral memorial card with floral wreaths and banner reading, "OUR FRIEND," and initials "ADC" [?].
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Memorial Wreath: Heart

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Description: Funeral memorial card with one heart-shaped wreath and other floral wreaths decorated with ribbons and cards.
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Neighborhood

Date: 1915
Description: View of a group of similarly designed houses in a residential area. There are railroad tracks on the right.
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Row of Cottages

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Description: A group of children stand along a fence near a row of cottages at the outskirts of town. In the far background is a mountain range.
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Buffalo Evergreen Company Delivery Truck

Date: 05 12 1939
Description: Two men load boxes into the side of an International D-15 truck owned by the Buffalo Evergreen Company, seller of florist supplies. The truck is parked out...
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Ann Drucella Witt

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Description: Ann Drucella Witt, the sister of Matt Witt, poses under a vine covered trellis that frames a door to a house. She is wearing a dress, jacket, gloves, and f...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Cordio Children

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Edith, John, and Caroline Cordio posing in the garden at the front of their house a...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Mrs. Ora Smith

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner in the Senior category garden competition, Mrs. Ora Smith, sitting on th...
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Group Portrait of Young Women

Date: 12 08 1943
Description: A group of six young indigenous women posed seated on the ground. They are wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair. The woman in front is holding a ...

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