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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 07 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Vera Ford standing beside a sundial in her garden at 843 Farwell Drive. |
| Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H... |
| Date: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | George E. Koehler, son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Koehler, 109 Chestnut Street, won a trip to Washington, D.C., for his bird watching and bird census work. He is... |
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| Description: | A sundial on a pedestal sits on Observatory Hill, overlooking trees, a rooftop, and part of Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 09 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Mary Walker, vice-president of the Audubon Society; Gratia Stavrum, Alan Keitt, and Thomas J Stavrum, president of the Audubon Society, enjoying a bird wal... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Campers Marilyn Homes, left, and Patricia Brown, right, learn to read a sundial at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. |
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| Description: | A view of a lawn at the State Normal School accented with a bust and sundial. Trees and various plantings dot the landscape. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ... |
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| Description: | A couple poses near a sundial on a brick walkway in a park. On the right is the original east wing of French Lick Springs Hotel, established in 1845 and bu... |
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| Description: | A sundial on the walkway shows the time around sunset at the entrance to the main house at House on the Rock. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi... |
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| Description: | Metal astrolabe mounted on concrete base in Sid's backyard. The base is painted red with yellow Chinese characters, the Astrolabe is painted gold. In the ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of The Gang at Camp 2. From left to right are: an unidentified man, Carl (who appears to be holding binoculars), Bill, Howard T., and Char... |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting on a log outdoors. She is holding binoculars in her left hand, and is reading a bird identification book. |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting in the grass next to a tree trunk. She is holding a pair of binoculars in her hands, and has a book Birds of North America lying ... |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing among trees and plants and looking up into the sky through a pair of binoculars. |
| Date: | 07 21 1985 |
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| Description: | View of a man and a woman looking over a railing, with binoculars and a telescopic lens at hand. Caption reads: "Light keeper John Foote and researcher Lau... |
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