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Aerial View of New Butler

Date: 01 1934
Description: Aerial view of New Butler, in Waukesha County.
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Waukesha Flyers

Date: 1932
Description: Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica w...
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St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church

Date: 1863
Description: Exterior of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church, with trees and a fence in the foreground.
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View of Town

Date: 1884
Description: View of buildings in Delafield, with two men and a dog standing near a fence in the foreground.
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Che-ne-qua Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of the Che-ne-qua Hotel on Pine Lake.
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Lindsley House

Date: 1890
Description: Round-framed view of the house in which Rev. A.L. Lindsley and his family lived in 1846. In it were born Julia West, Addison Alexander, and Justus (who die...
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Automobile on Country Road

Date: 08 23 1917
Description: Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background.
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Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
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Ski Hill

Date: 02 08 1948
Description: "This ski hill was a popular attraction located near Oconomowoc. Ward Woltman of Oak Grove is on the jump."
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Ski Jump Competition

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Description: A man jumps off a ski ramp as many spectators look on.
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Robert Hulburt

Date: 1933
Description: Robert Hulburt, age 11 and a student at Hillcrest School, District No. 6, Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookield and New Berlin, poses with his heifer in a...
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Stereograph View of a Man by a Lake

Date: 1870
Description: Man wearing "stove-pipe" hat, standing looking out over a lake.
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Old Falls Village

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of Falls Village from the cemetery looking south.
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Scuppernong Prairie Scientific Area Inspection

Date: 06 1957
Description: Members of the Board for the Preservation of Scientific Areas inspect the Scuppernong Prairie Scientific Area. The Board furnished this photograph for the ...
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Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picnic

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne having a picnic while leaning against a stack of cut grain in a field at Ten Chimneys.
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
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North Lake

Date: 1892
Description: An elevated view of a gently rolling landscape with cows grazing in the middle distance. At right is a farmhouse and outbuildings. Young trees have been pl...
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Brumder Summer House

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view of Pine Lake and the George Brumder summer house, taken from an observation tower built on a hill on the Brumder property. Many young tree...
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Pine Lake Gardens

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view, looking east, from the wooden tower on George Brumder's Pine Lake property, showing Pine Lake in the center and Beaver Lake beyond. There...

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