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Pumping Station for Lake Forest at Arboretum

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail...
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Cowboy Eddie and Friends

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Description: Madison television personality Howie Olson (right) with Cowboy Eddie and his friend magician Ben Bergor.
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Bascom Hill Burial Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o...
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Excavation site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation for placement of the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The legs and shoes of a ma...
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Bascom Hill Grave Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Man with a shovel standing in a ditch in front of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation to place the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The...
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Eagle Effigy Mound

Date: 07 30 1910
Description: Group of people standing on an eagle effigy mound on State Hospital grounds.
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Emma Boyum

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Description: Emma Marie Boyum (nee Schroeder), mother of Sid Boyum, sitting in a large chair on the front porch of her home at 237 Waubesa Street on the east side of Ma...
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Woman with Pink Flamingos on Bascom Hill

Date: 1979
Description: View uphill towards a woman sitting among a flock of pink flamingo lawn ornaments covering Bascom Hill. She is pretending to feed bread to two pink flaming...

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