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Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

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

O.E.S. Hospital, Masonic Home

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn towards the Order of Eastern Star hospital at the Wisconsin Masonic Home and Farm. Caption reads: "O.E.S. Hospital, Masonic Home, Dousman,...
Postcard

Bernard Schoeneman Homestead

Date: 1920
Description: Former Bernard Schoeneman (b. 1826; d. 1904) homestead. View from garden towards the brick farmhouse, where seven people, women and children, are posing on...
Photograph

Alma, Hans and Tessa

Date: 1973
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, poses with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Schmidt Reese, and brother-in-law Dr. Hans Reese on the shrub-bordered brick driv...
Photograph

William O. Petersen

Date: 06 1981
Description: William O. Petersen, right, poses with his wife, Jane Browne Petersen, and cousin Ernst Schmidt Reese. Jane holds a package of cucumber seeds and a hand cu...
Postcard

Frederick and Elizabeth Layton Home

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Description: A view across street towards Frederick and Elizabeth Layton's home at 534 Marshall Street. The clapboard house has two porches. On the left is a roofed enc...
Photograph

Mary Layton Cottages

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Description: Cottages in the United Kingdom that Frederick Layton established in memory of his mother Mary Layton. The exterior of the three cottages is identical and t...
Photograph

Scenic View at Mendota Beach

Date: 05 05 1929
Description: View of a bulb garden in front of a house near Lake Mendota. The far shoreline is in the background. The words "Bird Haven" are written in ink at the botto...
Photograph

A Summer Sitting Room

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: An informal group is seated under an awning in the garden of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Picture...
Photograph

View of the Fairchild House from the Garden

Date: 06 08 1896
Description: The Lucius Fairchild home at 302 Monona Avenue (later Martin Luther King Blvd.) seen from the back garden. Lush foliage surrounds the back door, where a br...
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View Across Lake Monona from Fairchild Garden

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: View down hill towards a board fence and two outbuildings on the shore of Lake Monona, taken from the back yard of the Lucius Fairchild home at 302 Monona ...
Photograph

Governor Kohler Sr. with Fifteen Representatives of Rotary International

Date: 06 02 1930
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler Sr. stands for a group portrait with several men and women on a lawn with trees and foliage. He is the fifth person from the righ...
Photograph

Indian Garden Beds

Date: 05 04 1915
Description: Elevated view of Indian garden beds at the Eulrich Farm site. They are beneath the woods which covers most of the tract on the west shore of Lake Winnebago...
Photograph

Gilman Street Executive Mansion Grounds and Capitol Fountain

Date: 
Description: Elevated view towards the right side of the grounds and Capitol Fountain of the Executive Mansion, which was located at 130 East Gilman Street. There is a ...
Postcard

Green House & Palm Garden

Date: 
Description: Colorized photographic view of a large glass greenhouse surrounded by trees. Caption reads: "Green House & Palm Garden, Elkhart Lake, Wis."
Photograph

Tea Circle Oaks

Date: 1959
Description: A large, spreading oak tree shading stone stairs in the courtyard of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin. A large bronze bell is hanging from the lowest li...
Photograph

Tea Circle Oak

Date: 1965
Description: A dusting of snow highlights the structure of a spreading oak in the courtyard of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin, seen in the background. A large bron...
Book or Pamphlet

Olds' Catalog Cover Design

Date: 1932
Description: The cover design of Olds' Catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The subtitle reads: "Tells the Truth." The illustration features a melon cut in half, and veg...
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Peony Garden

Date: 1962
Description: View across fence towards a small brick decorative windmill sitting in a fenced peony garden.
Postcard

Shore Pines, Lake Nebagamon, Wis.

Date: 
Description: View of Lake Nebagamon from across a fenced-in garden. Automobiles are parked along the lakeside road.

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