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Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett (far right) congratulating actors Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan on their marriage, c. 1937.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett and his wife, Antoinette Fischer Fawcett, at Breezy Point Resort in Crow Wing, 1926.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett with his third wife (and former secretary) Frances Robinson.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett playing golf with silent film star Harold Lloyd c. 1935. Fawcett and Lloyd's father, James Darsie Lloyd, were friends.
Wilhelm Pfaender, ca. 1870.
Wilhelm Pfaender, ca. 1880.
Wilhelm Pfaender, ca. 1900.
Exterior view of Wilkommen Heritage and Preservation Society of Norwood Young America, 2013. Photograph by LaVonne Kroells.
William A. French, Glensheen’s interior designer and decorator, 1941.
William and Frederick Spangenberg Jr. with family and friends, c.1900.