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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a vacation home west of Governor's Island, in Lake Mendota. Frank Lloyd Wright served as the architect in the remodeling (in 1901 and 1903) of... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, the Lamp family cottage, located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota, decorated for a party. Shown from the left are Matilda Lamp Lueder... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of the Cramer residence. Caption reads: "Summer Home of Mrs. William Cramer, Packwaukee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, located west of Governor's Island, Lake Mendota. Robert Lamp, in 1902, had his friend Frank Lloyd Wright design a cottage to be called "Rocky ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and his wife Susan Lloyd Jones, probably on the porch of their cottage. Susan died Oct 26, 1911 and Jenkin died Sept 12, 1918. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Susan Lloyd Jones and their collie, Roger, probably on the porch of a cottage. Susan died Oct 26, 1911 and Jenkin died Sept 12... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group portrait taken outdoors in front of what appears to be a cabin with laundry hanging to dry on a clothesline. J. Robert Taylor's three young childr... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Entrance sign and rainbow between two trees in front of several cabins at the Rainbow Cabins. The cabins were located on Route 16 on Vine Street. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A woman playfully spins another woman (probably her daughter) in a yard in front of a house. There is a lake in the background. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel sits at a picnic table with another woman. Mary is holding a ukulele and there is a cottage and lake in the background. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed young woman mows the lawn with a push mower at the cottage. She is in front of an open shed, and a clothesline hangs from it. A house... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A woman holds a young woman (Mary Brandel?) in her arms in front of their cottage at Fox Lake. Two other people can be seen on the left. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A young woman with long, loose hair sits in a chair in a yard. There is a cottage and lake in the background. She appears to have a mirror in her lap. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel posing on a weathered log, with fields, fence, and buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel is smiling and running in the yard. There is a cottage and lake in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three Taylor brothers pose in a line wearing bathing suits. Behind them is a cottage and a lake. The shadow of the photographer can be seen on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel and a friend pose on the sideboard of a parked car in what appear to be bathing suits. They are near a drive near a small building on the left... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view from behind of Mrs. Brandel, wife of E.W. Brandel, before she cut her long hair. She is outdoors near a road and small outbuildings. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Four young men pose together in a car. They are parked on a drive near small outbuildings. |
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