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Garden at Walden

Date: 
Description: The garage and garden at "Walden", the estate of Cyrus McCormick, Jr., showing a fountain and pond in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 1890
Description: Color plat map of Sun Prairie.
Photograph

Milwaukee Zoo Grounds

Date: 1964
Description: Aerial view of the Milwaukee County Zoo grounds nearing its completion.
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 
Description: Unidentified paper mill. The holding pond for the paper mill is in the foreground.
Photograph

St. Paul Flax Twine Mill Building

Date: 1910
Description: St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. The factory was owned and operated by the International Flax Twine Company (originally Minnie Harvester Company), a subsidiar...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Photograph

Rock Garden

Date: 07 23 1931
Description: Girl sitting in Arthur G. Clemens rock garden made with stones from every county in southern Wisconsin. Also includes pond, at 706 W. Lakeside Street.
Photograph

Rock Garden

Date: 07 23 1931
Description: Girl sitting in Arthur G. Clemens rock garden made with stones from every county in southern Wisconsin. Also includes pond, 706 W. Lakeside Street.
Photograph

Tenney Park Lagoon

Date: 07 10 1929
Description: Tenney Park lagoon.
Photograph

Tenney Park Lagoon

Date: 07 10 1929
Description: Tenney Park lagoon.
Photograph

Tenney Park Lagoon

Date: 07 10 1929
Description: Tenney Park lagoon.
Book or Pamphlet

Kemp 20th Century Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kemp 20th Century (reverse apron) line of manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man...
Photograph

Snow-Covered Skating Pond

Date: 1895
Description: Winter scene of the skating pond at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Postcard

Bruemmer's (or Brummer's) Dam and Pond

Date: 1905
Description: View of pond with rocky shoreline. Caption reads: "Scene on Bruemmer's Pond, Algoma, Wis.".
Photograph

Dam at Dells Pond

Date: 
Description: Front view of dam and waterfall at Dells Pond. There is a building on the left of the dam. People are fishing from a boat on the pond.
Photograph

Mill Pond

Date: 
Description: Caption reads: "Mill Pond, Augusta, Wis." View across water towards a large building on the far shoreline. Tree-lined shore on the left.
Photograph

Dam at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create a water garden and to ensure water could be se...
Photograph

Pond at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright referred to the pond as a water garden. The pond was created when a stream on the property was...
Photograph

Knapp Stout and Co.

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Description: Panoramic view of the Knapp Stout and Co. flour mill, with a pond in the foreground. The mill was built in 1880 and was destroyed by a fire in 1911.
Photograph

Millpond in Cross Plains

Date: 1915
Description: Millpond with several buildings and horses in the middle ground, and more buildings in the background. Trees are visible throughout. Text at lower left rea...

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