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Kohler Airport

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Description: The airport at Kohler. On the ground (right) is "The Village of Kohler," the Mahoney-Ryan-Brougham owned by Walter Kohler, Sr., and Carl Kohler's Aeronica ...
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American Club

Date: 1925
Description: The American Club, a fine club house for workers in a modern industrial villiage near Sheboygan. It was built by Kohler Manufacturing Company as a part of ...
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American Club

Date: 1925
Description: The American Club, a fine club house for workers in a modern industrial villiage near Sheboygan. It was built by Kohler Manufacturing Company as a part of ...
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American Club

Date: 1925
Description: The American Club, a fine club house for workers in a modern industrial villiage near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It was built by Kohler Manufacturing Company as...
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Kohler Company Housing

Date: 1925
Description: Kohler of Kohler Company housing for employees in a modern industrial village near Sheboygan, Wisc. A smokestack in the background has a sign that reads: "...
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Kohler Ravine Park

Date: 1935
Description: View of Kohler Ravine Park. In the right foreground is a small bridge, and on the right is a set of wide, concrete steps leading from the road down the hil...
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Waelderhaus

Date: 1948
Description: The Waelderhaus, a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler. Waelderhaus is a replica of his family's home in Austria. An Austrian architect was brought ov...
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Waelderhaus

Date: 1958
Description: The Waelderhaus, a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler the founder of the Kohler Company, by his daughter, Marie Christine Kohler. Waelderhaus is a re...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928-Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: Living Room of the 1928 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin, showing health carpet, tan murescoed wall, fireplace with wrought iron fire set, della rob...
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Kohler Demonstration House, 1928-Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: Living Room, looking toward the sun room, showing the green velvet sofa, coffee table with fuschia plant, desk, over curtains (tan background, with old ros...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928-Kitchen

Date: 1928
Description: Kitchen in the 1928 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The wall, ceiling, and cupboards are painted tan. The chairs, purchased unfinished, were pai...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928- Bedroom

Date: 1928
Description: Bedroom in the 1928 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The decor features jade green furniture, a flowered chair, and corn-colored curtains banded wi...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, Guest Room

Date: 1929
Description: Guest room in the 1929 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The decor featured lavender organdie curtains, a flowered cretonne covered chair, a cane se...
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1929 Kohler Demonstration Home, 1929-Bedroom

Date: 1929
Description: Bedroom in 1929 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The bedroom is painted in buff moresco. There is a braided rug and a hooked rug on the floor. It...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1929-Bedroom

Date: 1929
Description: Bedroom in the 1929 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin, decorated for a young boy. The spool bed is covered with a green, yellow and red India coverl...
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Governor Kohler Sr. with Fifteen Representatives of Rotary International

Date: 06 02 1930
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler Sr. stands for a group portrait with several men and women on a lawn with trees and foliage. He is the fifth person from the righ...
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Walter J. Kohler Sr. with the Kohler Junior Band

Date: 07 02 1930
Description: Governor Walter Kohler Sr. shakes the hand of a young boy, Henry Stoehr. They stand next to Henry Winsauer, and are surrounded by members of the Kohler Jun...
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Governor Walter J. Kohler Sr. with Airplane

Date: 07 02 1930
Description: Group portrait of four men standing outdoors under the wing of an airplane. From left to right: F.S. Brandenburg, Governor Kohler, George Charlesworth, and...
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Waelderhaus

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Description: Text on reverse reads: "Waelderhaus, the Girl Scout House of Kohler, Wisconsin, U.S.A. is characteristic of architecture in the Bregenzerwald, Vorariberg, ...
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1931 Demonstration Home

Date: 1931
Description: A two-story stone home in a Germanic-Austrian style. A decorative tile is set into the exterior between the windows on the second floor. Caption reads: "19...

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