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School Project

Date: 04 22 1967
Description: Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording.
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Waukesha Aviation Club Youth Outreach

Date: 1945
Description: A demonstration of parachute handling for members of a local YMCA by the Waukesha Aviation Club. The club considered such educational activities for young ...
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of the Park Hotel, with a child seated in the foreground. Caption reads: "Park Hotel, Waukesha, Wis."
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Bridgeman House

Date: 1854
Description: View of the Bridgeman house with three adults and a child posed along a fence in front of it.
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Jesse Smith Tavern

Date: 1914
Description: View of the Jessie Smith Tavern, with a group of people and a horse-drawn carriage outside.
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Smith Tavern

Date: 1890
Description: Side view of the Jesse Smith tavern, built in 1847. Two people are standing in front of the tavern in the snow. Handwriting at the bottom reads: "Home of J...
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Camp Home

Date: 1890
Description: Camp home, residence of Dan L. Camp, writer and historian. Three people are standing on and near the porch.
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Movie Set at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
Drawing

Artic Frozen Custard, Label

Date: 06 12 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features an Eskimo in a yellow coat and hat eating an ice cream cone. In the backgrou...
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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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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Cobblestone House

Date: 1884
Description: Exterior of a cobblestone house with women and children in the yard.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A Young Alfred Lunt as Rip Van Winkle

Date: 1904
Description: A young Alfred Lunt dressed as Rip Van Winkle, using clothing and a musket borrowed from farm hands and leggings made of gunny sacks.
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Anniversary

Date: 08 07 1946
Description: Outdoor group portrait of members of the Brumder family at the celebration of the forty-fifth wedding anniversary of George Frederick Brumder (1878-1961), ...
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Barbara Brumder

Date: 08 30 1922
Description: Barbara Brumder (1918-2017) posing on her fourth birthday with a bouquet of flowers tucked in her right arm. She is holding two packages in her left hand a...
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Sixth Birthday

Date: 08 30 1924
Description: Sunlight is streaming onto a screened porch where Barbara Brumder is smiling while sitting at the head of the table. She is posing with a wooden toy hoop a...
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Henriette with Grandchildren

Date: 1923
Description: Henriette Brandhorst Brumder (1841-1924), the widow of Milwaukee publisher and businessman George Brumder (1839-1910) poses while sitting in a wicker chair...
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New House

Date: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, the youngest child of Herbert Paul and Margaret Brouner Brumder, is picking up a brick from a pile on a construction site. The house...
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On a Limb

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret Brouner (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, left, standing near the trunk of a large tree. Her three children, from left, George Philip, Barbara and Herber...
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Barbara and Dog

Date: 1925
Description: Barbara Brumder, the daughter of Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder, holding a puppy, probably a Setter or Spaniel. She is wearing a stocking cap, coa...

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