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Ole Bull Family Playing Croquet
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Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the executive mansion for the governor of Wisconsin in 1885 and later the University of Wisconsin Knapp Graduate Center.
1874
Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923
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