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Mitchell Park

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Description: Small building covered with vines on the roof and sides on a path near the lake. Caption reads: "Mitchell Park, Milwaukee, Wis."
Photograph

The Eagles Nest

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Description: View of the Eagles Nest, a Japanese Garden featuring a pond amongst plants and trees.
Photograph

The Eagles Nest

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Description: View of the Eagles Nest, a Japanese Garden featuring a wooden Japanese gate, and beyond a bridge and building amongst plants and trees.
Photograph

The Eagles Nest

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Description: View of the Eagles Nest, a Japanese Garden featuring bridges and a building amongst plants and trees.
Photograph

The Eagles Nest

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Description: View of the Eagles Nest, a Japanese Garden featuring a building amongst plants and outdoor furniture.
Photograph

Japanese Tea House and Sunken Gardens

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Description: Elevated view of a Japanese Tea House and sunken gardens, located in an abandoned limestone quarry.
Photograph

John Cramer's Residence

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Description: Exterior of the home of John Cramer.
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Trip to University Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with boys and girls resting, exploring the flowers, and posing before a hike, during a fi...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: June and George Barry

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with June and George Barry posing by their wood-sided house (725 W. Washington?) amidst ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Matthews Family

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Rosalie, Ollie Mae, and Adrena Matthews posing by their garden, near the front step...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Cordio Children

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Edith, John, and Caroline Cordio posing in the garden at the front of their house a...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Mrs. Ora Smith

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner in the Senior category garden competition, Mrs. Ora Smith, sitting on th...
Photograph

W.H. Metcalf Residence

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Description: A woman posing in a garden at William H. Metcalf's Residence.
Photograph

Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...
Photograph

Women in Garden with Rhubarb

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Description: Five women posing sitting behind rhubarb leaves in a fenced-in garden. Two of the women are wearing rhubarb leaves on their heads. In the background are fe...
Photograph

Marble Bust in a Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: Classical marble bust surrounded by vegetation in a garden.
Photograph

Lawn at Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms — 501 Broadway

Date: 1930
Description: Side lawn of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms. Children are sitting in the lawn swing in the foreground, and another lawn swing is in the background next to the g...
Photograph

Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.
Photograph

Woman, Child, and Dog

Date: 1910
Description: Edna King stands behind an infant in a stroller in a garden next to a wooden building. A dog is lying next to the stroller. Vines grow on lattice structure...
Photograph

Jennie Krueger in the Garden

Date: 07 1903
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie Krueger standing along a garden fence next to a building holding flowers in her left hand. Her hat, decorated with ribbons and f...

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