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Home Built Pietenpol

Date: 06 15 1934
Description: A home built Pietenpol buit by members of the Waukesha Aviation Club after its initial flight. They are Chet Wolt, Jack Leeman, Dean Crites, and Bob Lathro...
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Hawks Tavern Smokehouse

Date: 1920
Description: Smokehouse with surrounding trees at Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn.
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Van Brunt House Spring and Lagoon

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline towards a lagoon, and a building in the distance amidst trees.
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Jacob Friend Residence

Date: 1910
Description: Jacob E. Friend residence showing the main house, barn, bath house, and boat house on Pine Lake.
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Stewart House

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of the Stewart home. The name I.N. Stewart is stamped on the back, and the home is presumably of the family of the donor of the photograph, Mar...
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Masonic Temple

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Description: Masonic Temple, with American flag flying in yard. Caption reads: "Masonic Temple, Oconomowoc, Wis."
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Townsend House

Date: 1870
Description: Townsend House and grounds with elaborate birdhouse in foreground.
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Cistercian Monastery

Date: 1940
Description: Cistercian Monastery. Plants and trees shroud building.
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Muskego Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: In the early 1920s, Prussian immigrant John Bosch constructed a simple, rectangular brick service garage with a canted corner at a prime location: the inte...
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Electric Wires and Railroad Tracks

Date: 03 1928
Description: Power lines along both sides of railroad tracks running through a rural area.
Print

Wisconsin Honey Farm, Label

Date: 1921
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Badger Brand Honey produced at the Wisconsin Honey Farm with the subheading "Where qu...
Photograph

Bache Barn

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the Bache barn with stone foundation. There are large haystacks on the right.
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Bache Farm

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Description: Exterior view of the Bache farm. In the foreground is a small building with an open door. In the background is a large barn with stone foundation and a lar...
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Front of Reymert's Printing Office

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view of front of James DeNoon Reymert's printing office, built in 1847. This office printed the first Norwegian newspaper, the "Nordlyset," in the...
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Charles E. Curver House

Date: 1933
Description: Two unidentified girls pose seated on a large stone in a rock garden on the lawn of the Charles E. Curver home. There are small clumps of flowers in bloom ...
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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...
Postcard

State Fish Hatchery

Date: 1920
Description: Photographic postcard of the state fish hatchery. Caption reads: "State Fish Hatchery, Delafield, Wis."
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Alfred Lunt Weeding the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Alfred Lunt pulling weeds in the cornfield at Ten Chimneys.
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Lynn Fontanne

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne in work clothes and wearing a rhubarb leaf as a hat.
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Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.

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