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Vera Ford in Her Garden

Date: 07 23 1932
Description: Elevated view of Vera Ford standing beside a sundial in her garden at 843 Farwell Drive.
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Blankenburg are listening to the radio while working in their plot.
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Kennedy and Labor Leaders

Date: 05 16 1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy meeting with delegates to the Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workers Union in the White House rose garden. The labor leader...
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Children in the Garden

Date: 1928
Description: Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ...
Drawing

Alexander Mitchell Estate

Date: 1872
Description: Lithograph elevated view of the Alexander Mitchell home and gardens seen from the corner of Ninth and Spring Streets. Pedestrians, horse-riders and a horse...
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Sunken Garden

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Description: View down boulevards and a street. On the right, stairs lead downward toward a sunken garden. Men gather near parked automobiles. Founded in 1905, the Heer...
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Formal Garden

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Description: A couple poses near a sundial on a brick walkway in a park. On the right is the original east wing of French Lick Springs Hotel, established in 1845 and bu...
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Village Inn

Date: 1928
Description: View across road of the Village Inn; featuring a "Hotel" sign, vines along the screened porch windows, and a fenced garden.
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Fountain near Courthouse

Date: 1910
Description: View of a fountain in the garden of the courthouse, constructed from 1906-1908.
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IH Stationary Engine and Water Pump in Garden

Date: 10 1906
Description: An International Harvester stationary engine appears to be powering a water pump, perhaps for irrigation. In the background is a pond.
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Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
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Home Hotel

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Description: View from unpaved road of the "Home Hotel," a two-story wood frame building with a balcony and a porch. Several flowers are planted in the garden and in po...
Postcard

Residence of D.P. Lameraux

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a stone mansion surrounded by a stone fence. Caption reads: "Residence of D.P. Lameraux, Beaver Dam, Wis."
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...

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