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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Jakob Ottesen and Group

Date: 1874
Description: On the left, Jakob Ottesen is holding a long-stemmed pipe, and behind him a ladder is leaning against a tree. At his feet, a large dog is stretched out. Th...
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Group Outside of House

Date: 1876
Description: Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th...
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Oscar (Boney) Halverson on Steps

Date: 1895
Description: Oscar (Boney) Halverson smoking a cigar on the front porch of a house. He is wearing a shirt with collar, bow tie, suspenders, and high, laced boots, and ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Group of men and women listening to a speaker at the Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Il...
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Big Bill Thompson and Friends

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Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
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Log Cabin

Date: 1914
Description: Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Music Clinic Faculty

Date: 07 30 1948
Description: Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin Music Clinic Faculty held each summer for Wisconsin high school student musicians. Left to right: Peter Wilho...
Photograph

Kilbourntown House

Date: 1943
Description: House built by Benjamin Church in 1844. Restored, it stands in Estabrook Park. Two men near front porch, from left to right: Frederic Heath, President of...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette

Date: 1924
Description: Robert M. La Follette standing and holding a pipe. Philip La Follette stands in the background in the shadows.
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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The Brandels and the Taylors

Date: 1923
Description: E.W. Brandel, Mrs. Brandel, and the Taylors pose in chairs in front of a building. The man on the right is smoking a cigar, and behind them are windows wit...
Photograph

Harold Smith and Max

Date: 1926
Description: Harold Smith, wearing a hat, coat, and gloves, sits on a porch step with Max the dog. He is holding a pipe in his right hand.
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Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch in the Snow

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Description: Showing the effects of a large winter snow at Bloch's Maryland flat.
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Man Sitting on a Porch

Date: 07 01 1962
Description: Conrad Breunig sits smoking on his back porch and smokes a pipe. A retired farmer, Mr. Breunig now builds models and small wagons in his shop.
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"Independence"

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Description: A copy of a painting of a man sitting on a porch, entitled "Independence" by Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899), a prominent 19th century American genre pai...
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An Old Couple

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Description: A portrait of an old African American couple sitting on a porch. The woman on the left is smoking a pipe and is holding a small dog in her lap, and the man...
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Log Cabins at Boulder Lodge, Ghost Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Man smoking a cigar while standing in front of a log cabin situated in a clearing in northern Wisconsin. The man's necktie is blowing in the wind.

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