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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P...
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Pine Point, Devil's Lake

Date: 07 29 1928
Description: Pine Point, high above Devil's Lake.
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Pine Point, Devil's Lake

Date: 07 29 1928
Description: Pine Point, high above Devil's Lake.
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Picnic Point through the Willows

Date: 1926
Description: View through willow trees on Picnic Point across University Bay of Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls

Date: 1926
Description: View of Adams, Tripp and Van Hise Halls. All are residence halls on the University of Wisconsin campus with Picnic Point and Lake Mendota in the backgroun...
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Picnic Point

Date: 1935
Description: View through trees of Lake Mendota and Picnic Point from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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1977 International Scout II XLC Camping

Date: 1977
Description: An International Scout II XLC parked on the shoreline of a lake. A man is using the hatchback of the truck to prepare for fishing, while another man in the...
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Walking on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: Two younger men assisting an elderly woman as they are walking across a snowy, frozen Lake Mendota. Shoreline buildings off Langdon Street, including The E...
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Red Gym from Vilas Hall

Date: 09 15 1979
Description: Elevated view of the Red Gym Armory from Vilas Hall, with Lake Mendota and Maple Bluff on the far shoreline in the background.
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Cox Hollow Lake

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Description: Elevated view of a park scene near Cox Hollow Lake, at Governor Dodge State Park. In the foreground, a man is grilling at a picnic table, while two women a...
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Seaplane

Date: 1950
Description: A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan...
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Stocking a Lake

Date: 1940
Description: A biplane is dropping fingerling fish into a Wisconsin lake. There are two small sheds on the shoreline. The caption on the reverse of the print reads: "Fi...
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Bleak November

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and...
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First Leaves

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view towards a woman posing on a spit of land jutting into a lake, seen through birch trees in the spring. Caption reads: "Spring comes suddenly t...
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January Frosting

Date: 1960
Description: Rock formation, Devil's Doorway, in the snow. In the background Devil's Lake is frozen and bluffs are in the background.
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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...

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