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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a group of people in a large model launch with an American flag. Caption reads: "On Mendota Lake near University of Wisconsin-Madison Boat House." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Title page of a picturesque and descriptive book about Lake Geneva showing two steamboats "Lady Of The Lake" and "Lucius Newberry." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards cabins on the shore of Delavan Lake, with three women standing near the base of a pier. Caption reads: "Log Cabin, Delavan Lake, ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the bridge near a mill. Caption reads: "Bridge at Foot of Mirror Lake, Delton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Florence from across Fisher Lake, with several people standing below on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Florence, Wis. from across Fisher L... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the club house. Boats are along the shoreline. Caption reads: "Chicago Club House on Lake Court O'Reilles, Near Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: Panoramic View of Minocqua, Wis." A railroad bridge is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View towards the Yacht Club on the shoreline of Lake Winnebago. There is a widow's walk on the roof, and a large wrap-around porch. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertisement with the Carl Schurz monument. Caption reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company, Aug. 1915", and at bottom: "Oshkosh, Wisconsin". Text on right... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lake and and a bridge road. A man is standing on the road, and a boat is pulled up near the bridge. There is a building on the opposite sh... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Ice House Bay and the lake. A man and a dog are standing on dock in the foreground, and on the right is a man in rowboat. There is a large building on the... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Madison, taken from the roof of South Hall. This reduced copy was made from original negatives by E.C. Nielson. Labels for both Lake Mend... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline from Lake Mendota of University of Wisconsin-Madison varsity men's rowing crew. People are watching from the boathouse in the backgr... |
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| Description: | Hilltop view of the Congregational church on Madeline Island (?). In the background are buildings, houses, and the shoreline of a lake. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is behind the boathouse. In the left corner, a rowing ream is on t... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Carillon Tower and Social Science Building, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point and Lake Mendota are in the ba... |
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| Description: | A sundial on a pedestal sits on Observatory Hill, overlooking trees, a rooftop, and part of Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from shoreline of Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a university building on the hill on the left, and a pi... |
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