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Neighborhood Garage Sale

Date: 09 13 1984
Description: People working and shopping at a neighborhood garage sale in the Walker's Square Park area. Several neighborhood groups collaborated to sponsor the annual ...
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Garden and Screened Porch

Date: 09 1980
Description: Small house with screened-in porch. In the foreground is a fenced-in garden surrounding a telephone pole.
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State Street Alley

Date: 1980
Description: View of alley behind a few State Street buildings, including Paul's Club, a Bar-Restaurant.
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Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1980
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, owner of Black Point Estate, poses seated in a green wicker chair on the porch of the main house. Standing behind her on the left an...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage at Black Point

Date: 1980
Description: View from lawn of a man holding the harness of a team of two horses hitched to an open carriage on the brick drive at Black Point. A large group looks on f...
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Along the Lake Monona Shoreline

Date: 1982
Description: View across a lawn towards the back of a house. The lawn slopes down to the left towards a tree-lined shore, with a bench and a pier. In the background is ...
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Suzy nee Elvira Dambry

Date: 1982
Description: A profile view of the head of a woman, Suzy nee Elvira Dambry, sitting on a porch and looking across the street at a large brick building on the corner of ...
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The Poet's Larch

Date: 1982
Description: The lower portion of the trunk of a large larch tree standing beside the farmhouse of poet Edna Meudt. The tree had been toppled by a tornado in 1973 and w...
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Austrian Pine

Date: 1981
Description: A tall pine shading the front of the two-story brick house built by Rufus White in 1864. The tree was probably planted around the same time. Frank Hoard wa...
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Maple Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A large soft maple tree stands beside a small house with plastic sheeting on the porch screens. There is a barn with a silo in the background, and snow on ...
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White Pine

Date: 1981
Description: An unidentified man in a winter coat is standing with his right hand resting on a large limb of a mature white pine on the grounds of the T.B. Scott Mansio...
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Joe Oulahan

Date: 08 20 1989
Description: A man is sitting on the railing of a back porch, with a garage and lawn in the background. Caption reads: "Joe Oulahan, 32, came here from Connecticut 15 y...
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Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant and Butik

Date: 08 20 1981
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant and Butik. Sister Bay, Door County, Wis. 54234." A goat is standing on the turf covered roof of a r...

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