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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of rowing, sailing and fishing on Lake Monona in Madison. The back of this yellow carded stereograph reads "The Beauties of Madison and Surro... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Drawing of and elevated view across water towards the Kendall residence, home of George L. Storer, a businessman in Madison. Three people are in a rowboat,... |
| Date: | 08 27 1896 |
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| Description: | View of Turville's Point and its shoreline on Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Monoa towards Madison from the Old Assembly Grounds. Trees frame the view of the lake, and boaters are in the distance on the right. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore. |
| Date: | 08 31 1885 |
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| Description: | Pencil on paper drawing of large house on hill above river, with rowboat and boathouse. The house has three stories, four chimneys, mansard roof, and long... |
| Date: | 08 24 1885 |
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| Description: | Pencil on paper; promontory shoreline with houses, trees, and church in background sweeping to right, with long pier jutting into lake. Two boats tied to ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madi... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | These two maps of Madison and the Four Lakes region show the site of the Teachers Country Club on Lake Monona, the lakes and the Catfish or Yahara River, f... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, high-collared blouse, jacket, and long skirt sits in a rowboat while rowing a small boat, presumably on Lake Mendota. A cat sits at ... |
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