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Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more livable. Shown is Mrs. Robert Walters. She and h...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more livable. Shown is Mrs. Robert Rapp with her 2-ye...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is David, left, an...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is Marion Brown st...
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Secretary of State Robert C. Zimmerman Walks from Capitol to Home

Date: 08 02 1960
Description: From the Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin Secretary of State Robert C. Zimmerman has walked every weekday after working in the State Capitol, for ...
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Bird's Nest

Date: 05 28 1959
Description: A robin feeding a worm to baby birds in a nest located in a flower pot on the balcony of the C.A. Grant apartment, 111 Wilson Street.
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Interior of a Room

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: Interior view of a room. The window on the far wall is partially boarded up. The cabinet door under the sink is ajar, the floor has broken or missing piece...
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Fire at a Gilman Street Mansion

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Fire scenes at a three-story, converted mansion at 7 East Gilman street. Two men are carrying stacks of clothing near the front entrance. Ladders are leani...
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin is standing by a two-burner stove, and pouring hot water into a 'one cup' coffee maker. She resides in her own apartment within her daughter...
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin is in her apartment playing her piano and joined by her son-in-law, Ralf Metz, who is playing a violin, and her grandsons Scott, 12, and All...
Drawing

Men's Quarters, Garage, and Stable

Date: 1924
Description: Architectural drawing of what became known as The Cow Palace at Forest Lodge.
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Cow Palace and Apartment

Date: 2002
Description: The Cow Palace, a wooden cow barn and apartment at Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon. Flower boxes are situated on the apartment portion of the cow palace. Th...
Postcard

Rock Ledge

Date: 1951
Description: Text on reverse reads: "'Rock Ledge' Wisconsin's most picturesque gift shop located on the historical site at the Falls of the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan F...
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Mrs. Lehman and Son John

Date: 09 28 1932
Description: Mrs. C.D. Lehman, a writer of children's books, with her son, John, a University of Wisconsin student. They are pictured in their home in the Princeton apa...
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Mrs. R.W. Doskotch serves lunch to her baby daughter Donna Leisa at their unit in the U.W. Eagle Heights graduate students apartments. Mr. Doskotch earned ...
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Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 17 1928
Description: View across street towards two delivery trucks, one for Philip P. Cohan Furniture, and one for Harry Sacks Furniture, both of Bayonne, N.J. parked along th...
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Foyer in Lyon Apartments

Date: 12 18 1937
Description: Interior view of the foyer of Gay apartment building called the Lyon Apartments, 330 N. Carroll Street, featuring the new carpet.
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Mrs. Kate Gay's Apartment

Date: 12 18 1937
Description: Mrs. Kate (widow of Leonard) Gay's living room, looking south into the dining room, in her apartment 101, Lyon Apartments, 330 N. Carroll Street.
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Mrs. Kate Gay's Living Room

Date: 12 18 1937
Description: Mrs. Kate (widow of Leonard) Gay's living room, looking north, Apartment 101, Lyon Apartment Building, 330 N. Carroll Street.
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Mrs. Charles M. Overby enjoying a quiet afternoon as her two daughters Solveig (3 1/2) and Kim (1) take a nap in their U.W. Eagle Heights apartment. Mr. Ov...

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