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Lilia Suckow

Date: 1932
Description: Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house.
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Catholic Parsonage

Date: 1913
Description: View from street of front of parsonage, a large two-story house with a gabled roof and a porch. There is a garden and stable behind the parsonage, and in t...
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Working in the Garden

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, 14, and his sister Helen, 12, work barefoot in the garden of their home farm. Both are students at the Cloverland School, District No. 2. Th...
Postcard

Brownsville, Wis.

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of Brownsville featuring dwellings, gardens, sheds and a school. Caption reads: "Brownsville, Wis."
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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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We Saw You . . . Planning Flower Show

Date: 08 06 1959
Description: Members of the Little Garden Club plan a flower show. They include, from left, Alice Hutchins, Rachel Landphier, Barbara Barrett, and Lydia Shafer.
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Backyard Swimming

Date: 1957
Description: Suburban upper-class residence in wooded area with rock-lined swimming pool and swimming children. Two women sit in lawn chairs on the lawn near the house ...
Photograph

Apiary of N.E. France

Date: 1904
Description: Apiary of 92 colonies owned by N.E. France, a celebrated beekeeper. In the center is the frame of the 10x10-ft extracting house.
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Marble Bust in a Garden

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

Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: The grounds at Springhill Cottages, with four cottages on the hill in the background. There is a person sitting on a chair inside an open-sided building in...
Photograph

We Saw You at YWCA Garden Tea

Date: 05 14 1960
Description: Two newly elected Madison YWCA board members talk with three Madison ministers. Left to right: Rev. Robert Towner, Blanche Hart, Rev. Howard Orians, Violet...
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We Saw You at YWCA Garden Tea

Date: 06 14 1960
Description: A number of children and husbands of YWCA members gathering while the YWCA has its annual garden tea in the garden of Sybil Hanks at 525 Wisconsin Avenue. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Lawn Mowers, Farm & Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top an illustration of a woman standing holding a lawn mower. Cut reads: "Lawn Mowers and Lawn Swings." The bottom illustration shows a wom...
Photograph

Main Street and Walters House

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of houses and yards on Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. There is a large white house with a tower is the family home of the Walters w...
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Robert Ansorge

Date: 1910
Description: Dressed in overalls, young Robert Ansorge grips the links of a makeshift play pen fence with his left hand. His right hand is on his forehead, and he is lo...
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Two Women in Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Two women wearing hats and dresses stand under a large, blossoming tree in a garden. They are both reaching up and holding a blossom while looking at the c...
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Standing in front of the Ullirichs Home

Date: 07 20 1902
Description: Members of the Krueger and Ullrich families standing in a garden located at the front of the Ullrich home. August is standing on the far left, while Edgar,...
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Alabama Home and Farm

Date: 05 1902
Description: View over fence and garden towards an African American home and farm. The small home is standing along a tree line with the fenced-in garden stretching alo...
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Woman Carrying Clothes Basket on her Head

Date: 05 1902
Description: Florence Christian carrying the cleaned laundry of Paul C. Goetsch in a large basket on her head while walking barefoot through a garden.

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