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| Date: | 09 03 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a truck parked along the opposite curb. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "Frankenberg-Rich Engineering Co. Inc."... |
| Date: | 03 10 1928 |
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| Description: | Left side view of a truck parked across a road in front of a stone wall and a fence. There is a large brick building in the far background. The sign on the... |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Damaged Packard sedan in an auto garage with Tagolene oils and greases sign. |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | County Highway G, Mount Vernon, looking south, taken for Travelers Insurance Co. Dane County. |
| Date: | 01 23 1934 |
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| Description: | James Sweet Donald farmstead, built in 1858, on the "Rock View Farm," now called Vernon Valley Farms, at 1972 Hwy 92 near Mount Vernon. It is on the Nation... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two signs are posted in an open area planted with young trees. One sign identifies the "Forest of Fame Mt. Vernon," and the other sign the "Elm Tree from B... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | A posted sign reads: "George Washington Elms, From Mt. Vernon, VA to Mt. Vernon, WIS. Planted May 6th, 1916," at the Forest of Fame, consisting of trees gr... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in front of George and Martha Washington's tombs. One woman on the left is walking away from the tomb holding a camera. Two Americ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Unintended multiple exposure of three images. Two are of the porch at George Washington's Mount Vernon (one vertical and distant, one horizontal and close-... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young man posing with two bus drivers in front of a row of buses parked on the side of the road. Several vehicles are parked in a parking lot across the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Men and women boarding a coach bus. The bus driver stands outside leaning against the front of the bus. Several people are seated in the bus seats with the... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of George Washington's Mount Vernon from the circular driveway. A line of people are waiting at the entrance. The cupola on the roof has a weath... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the lower gardens at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Two gardeners are tending to the flowers along the path that leads to an outdoor pavilion. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the back of George Washington's Mount Vernon from the left. A woman is walking on the lawn in the left foreground, and behind her ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the back side of George Washington's Mount Vernon. Several people are sitting and standing on the piazza. There is a cupola on the... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Shirley Krueger standing near one of the columns on the piazza. Several chairs are lined up against the wall to the left of an open doorway. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Mount Vernon, built in 1757 by George Washington. Curtis' Music Room houses a harpsichord, as well as other instruments. |
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| Description: | Sketch of Mount Vernon, designed by George Washington in the Georgian style and built in 1757. Text on photograph reads, "Mount Vernon as It Appeared in Fo... |
| Date: | 07 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Two trees, one in the foreground that is living and another in the background that is dead, reside in a rural pasture. A wire fence runs through the pastur... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over plowed field and dirt road toward a farm with a farmhouse, barn, silo and other outbuildings residing in a sloping valley. |
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