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Fairchild Dining Room

Date: 1880
Description: The ornate interior of the Lucius Fairchild house at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877). Built by Lucius' father Jairus Fairchild i...
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Parlor on High Street

Date: 1898
Description: An interior view of the front parlor at 165 N. High Street.
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1909
Description: Interior view of the Tank cottage featuring a fireplace and two rocking chairs.
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Toasting Marshmallows with Professor Jacobson

Date: 1910
Description: Seven people gather around the fireplace at the home of Professor Jacobson, toasting marshamallows (probably).
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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
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Fire Destruction at Taliesin

Date: 1914
Description: Postcard photograph of the remains of the living room at Taliesin after the fire destroyed most of the living quarters. The living room fireplace, and a po...
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Zona Gale's Study

Date: 1928
Description: This room in the home of William Llewellyn and Zone Gale Breese, with desk, wood paneled walls, fireplace, and tile floor served as Ms. Gale's study.
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Dining Room

Date: 1928
Description: The dining room in the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. There is a large fireplace, oriental rug, and matching chandelier and sconces. A la...
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Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: The living room in the home of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese, with a fire in the fireplace. There is a spinning wheel near the hearth and bookcase...
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Dinner Dance

Date: 09 25 1929
Description: Couples on the dance floor at The Chanticleer nightclub.
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Juliette Blackman Breese (Mrs. Cecil Bennett) with William and Zona Gale Breese

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the bride, Juliette, seated, with her father, William Llewellyn Breese, and step-mother Zona Gale Breese, standing behind her. There is an ar...
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Dorothy Werner

Date: 1932
Description: Formal full-length portrait of Dorothy Werner standing at a fireplace. She wears a dress that is now held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su...
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Polperro House Living Room

Date: 1940
Description: The living area in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after resto...
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Colonial Kitchen in Historical Museum

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj...
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Colonial Kitchen in Historical Museum

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin...
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Bascom Hall President's Office

Date: 1947
Description: President's office with fireplace and large table in Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Octagon House

Date: 1950
Description: Interior view of the parlor of Richards' Octagon House.
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Drawing Room in Governor's Residence

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: The Stately drawing room is full of shades of green and lilac, repeated in the flowered draperies. Conversation pieces on the mantel and elsewhere about t...
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Rock Ledge

Date: 1951
Description: Text on reverse reads: "'Rock Ledge' Wisconsin's most picturesque gift shop located on the historical site at the Falls of the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan F...

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