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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Williamson Family Poses outside with Grandmother

Date: 1873
Description: A family poses in a yard around a table. The grandmother appears to have an embroidery hoop in her lap. In the background on the right is a grindstone. Fur...
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Madison Garden Club

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Group portrait of men, women, and a young child, members of the Madison Garden Club, in front of the Coney Weston farmhouse, 5017 Odana Road.
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Century House Ceramics

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: Jane Scalbom and Jane Gilbert Peterson opened a ceramics studio in one of the oldest buildings in Madison, the Century House, 3029 University Avenue. They ...
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Edwin Brunner, Family Court Judge

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: Edwin Bruner, the new Family Court Judge, who will take his oath of office Friday morning, is shown with his family in the glass-enclosed living room of th...
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Turvill House and Garden

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Turvill house and garden. A man and woman are working in the garden near the Turvill home. The woman, wearing a bonnet, is bent over w...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile

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