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Girl with Easter Lily

Date: 03 30 1931
Description: Ruth Jordan holding an Easter lily plant in Smith-Knox Floral Co. greenhouse, 2023 Sherman Avenue.
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Easter Lily Display

Date: 03 30 1931
Description: Ruth Jordan standing behind a display of Easter lily plants in Smith-Knox Floral Co. greenhouse, 2023 Sherman Avenue.
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Growing Rice in Greenhouse

Date: 10 1926
Description: Growing rice in University of Wisconsin-Madson horticultural greenhouse.
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Mullin's Flowers Greenhouse

Date: 03 04 1953
Description: Schade & Cecelia Mullin's Flowers, 1044 South Park Street,. Interior view of the greenhouse showing potted plants.
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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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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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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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Interior of Greenhouse

Date: 1909
Description: View of the interior of a greenhouse at the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
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New York Botanical Gardens

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Description: Water garden at the New York Botanical Gardens featuring palms and water lilies along a conservatory walkway.
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Green House Interior

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Description: A view of the interior of the green house. Caption reads: "Hyde Park Green House. Muskogee, Okla."
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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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Potting Plants

Date: 1911
Description: Group of women from the District Agricultural School, and gardener E.E. Harris on the far right. They are standing in a row potting plants at a potting tab...
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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.
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"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Movie still from the Allied Artists movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," featuring Carolyn Jones (playing "Teddy" Belicec), King Donovan (playing Jack B...
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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.

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