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"Indian Guides"

Date: 01 27 1963
Description: Young Caucasian boys dressed like Native Americans as part of their YMCA "Indian Guides" program. They are being directed by the "All Nations Chief" Henry ...
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Waiting out the Rain

Date: 06 21 1987
Description: Shoppers take refuge in the open doorway of a shop during a downpour.
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Family Camping Trip

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park.
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La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
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"Sunnybank"

Date: 1870
Description: Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras...
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Mayor's Summer Home

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Description: View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th...
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Fountain Spring House Menu

Date: 08 01 1889
Description: Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background...
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Lakeside Croquet Game

Date: 1880
Description: Lakeside lawn set up for croquet game and garden pavilion at the estate, "Sunnybank." A man sits in the grass with two children. On the right in the backgr...
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People Playing Croquet Next to an Automobile

Date: 1916
Description: A group of a man, two women and two children playing croquet next to an automobile and a gazebo in a park.
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Lannon Railroad Depot

Date: 1911
Description: View across tracks towards a small railroad depot, with people gathered on the platform. A locomotive belching smoke is approaching the depot.
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Deutscher Press Club

Date: 07 1906
Description: An informal group portrait of members of the Milwaukee Deutscher Press Club and others, taken at Villa Henriette (mistakenly labeled "Villa Brumder"), the ...
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Brumder Family on Porch

Date: 1900
Description: George Brumder, sitting at right, and his wife Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, sitting and wearing a dark dress, are posing with family members on the porch ...
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Train Wreck

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o...
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Birthday Party Group

Date: 06 30 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, extreme right, sits at a dining table behind his eighth birthday cake. His younger brother, Philip, is also seated at the table an...
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Race on Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: A young woman, possibly the photographer's daughter Barbara Brumder, is posing sitting on the deck of a wooden Chris-Craft power boat moored to a pier. The...
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Fourteenth Birthday

Date: 06 30 1931
Description: Birthday boy Herbert Edmund Brumder, second from right, is sitting at a dining table with his siblings Barbara, right, and Philip, who is seated at the hea...
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At the Lake

Date: 1932
Description: A family group poses in the living room of the Herbert P. Brumder home at Pine Lake. From left are Philip, his mother Margaret, Barbara, and Herbert E. Br...
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Kite Ice Skating

Date: 1933
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder, second from left, posing on frozen Pine Lake with his children, from left, Philip, Herbert E. and Barbara. All are wearing winter coa...
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Picnic

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: Mararet Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far left, and her son Philip, third from left, join other friends or relatives gathered around a large fallen log ...
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Seventeenth Birthday

Date: 06 30 1934
Description: The photographer's son, Herbert E. Brumder, towers over his mother and siblings as he stands at a table which holds a birthday cake. Pictured are, from le...

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