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Snow-Covered Skating Pond

Date: 1895
Description: Winter scene of the skating pond at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Pond at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright referred to the pond as a water garden. The pond was created when a stream on the property was...
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Dam and Pond at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: The dam and pond at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright dammed a small stream on the property to create the pond and to ensure water could be ...
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Kindly Thoughts and Good Wishes For Christmas and the New Year

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card of a man loading Christmas trees on a sled drawn by two horses. A dog runs in front of them. The sun is setting over a lake or pond with trees...
Drawing

Ice Skating at Dunham School

Date: 1945
Description: A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with s...
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Boys Playing Ice Hockey

Date: 1945
Description: Three boys play ice hockey on a frozen pond. One boy has fallen and is sitting on the ice. Snow covers the ground, with some grass peeking through. A fence...
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Jeffry's Mill

Date: 01 22 1932
Description: Two men fish from a diving platform while a third fishes from the shore at Jeffry's Mill. The tall, wood frame mill building is in the background, with an ...
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Posing in Front of Old Kiln

Date: 02 1906
Description: Members of the Krueger and Buelke family standing below an old kiln during winter. Some of them are holding ice skates and a sled is in front of the twins....
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Winter Sports with the Kruegers and Buelkes

Date: 02 1906
Description: Group posing next to the quarry pond with the old kiln on the hill above them. Several people in the group are holding ice skates. From the left are: Sara...
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Ice Skating at Tenney Park

Date: 02 2014
Description: Two young men are playing hockey on the lagoon at Tenney Park. Snow is on the ground and the small foot bridge is in the background.
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East Lagoon in Winter

Date: 1993
Description: Snow covered trees are growing out of a small island on a lagoon, with more trees lining the shore. In the distance are the central buildings of Northern I...
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Willow Branches at the Lagoon in Winter

Date: 1993
Description: The bare branches of a willow tree are obscuring the view of a snow covered lagoon. On the opposite shoreline is the main gate and entrance to Northern Ill...
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Ice Age Trail at Shoveler's Sink

Date: 03 24 2015
Description: View across snowy field towards a pond.
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Arms Children at Tenney Park

Date: 1965
Description: Some of the children of Lewis Arms (and possibly their friends) ice skating and riding on sleds on the ice at Tenney Park in the winter.
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Henry Vilas Zoo Animals Keep Active in the Winter

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Animals at the Henry Vilas Zoo keep active during winter weather.
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Granite Quarry

Date: 1977
Description: Elevated view across a granite quarry looking west, with Buffalo Lake in the background. Buildings of the town are between the quarry and the lake, and a p...
Postcard

Sawmill & Dam

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Brooks & Ross Sawmill & Dam, Schofield, Wis. 1909." The dam and millpond with the sawmill behind it. There are multiple buildings wit...

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