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Rentschler Truck at Greenhouse

Date: 04 16 1936
Description: Man holding long stem rose box beside Rentschler Floral Co. delivery truck. He is parked in front of Rentschler greenhouse office building, located at 2500...
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Agronomy Wing Under Construction

Date: 04 01 1931
Description: Constructing the foundation for the Agronomy wing (Moore Hall) to the Horticulture Building, 1575 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Arthur Peabody, St...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Greenhouse

Date: 01 08 1947
Description: Man with plants in a University of Wisconsin-Madison greenhouse.
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University Heights Neighborhood

Date: 1913
Description: View looking southwest at the University Heights neighborhood from near the corner of University Avenue and Breese Terrace. In the foreground is the Univer...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me...
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College of Agriculture on Campus

Date: 1899
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture, looking southeast. Fences and fields are in the foreground. There are two windmills near buildings ...
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Professor G. William Longenecker in a Greenhouse

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture G. William Longenecker with cyclamen plants in a greenhouse.
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Elevated View over University Avenue

Date: 1931
Description: Tower view from the First Congregational Church of the University campus and University Avenue. Lake Mendota is in the background on the left. The Wisconsi...
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Rentschler's Greenhouse Easter Lilies

Date: 04 11 1952
Description: Rentschler's Greenhouse employee, Otto Wagner, holds Harold Kautzer, Jr., a 3-year-old neighborhood boy, to see and smell the easter lilies grown there.
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Poinsettia Display in Greenhouse

Date: 12 23 1952
Description: Over 4,000 poinsettia plants are displayed in a Madison greenhouse awaiting delivery to local families for their traditional Christmas decorations.
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Longfellow School Greenhouse

Date: 04 21 1953
Description: Five kindergarteners at Longfellow school preparing plants for the school's greenhouse.
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
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University of Wisconsin Greenhouse

Date: 01 29 1958
Description: Three men are shown holding a large copy of the wording to be put on a bronze plaque to mark the ceremony of turning a 100-foot greenhouse over to the Univ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Two nursery employees, Florance Dohm and Angeline Magnasco, examining a blooming plant among the tables full of blooming lilies ready for delivery inside a...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse.
Postcard

Horticulture and Agricultural Physics Bldg.

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Description: Exterior view of the Agriculture building on the University of Wisconsin campus overlooking Lake Mendota. Greenhouses are on the left. Caption reads: "Madi...

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