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Drawing

First Fort Crawford

Date: 10 1829
Description: Fort Crawford as drawn by Seth Eastman. People are in a canoe in the river in the foreground. Across the river is the fort, other buildings around the fort...
Photograph

Fourth of July Crowd at Humboldt Park

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: Children canoeing in the pond with swans, while other children are watching. There are adults and children in the background near a building.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 12-18

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Description: She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here
on the outer edge of worry
It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice
A ha...
Photograph

Elevated View of a Canoe

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Description: Elevated view of a man posing standing next to a canoe on sawhorses in a yard, showing the interior of the canoe, and two paddles lying inside. A young gir...
Photograph

1911 Flood

Date: 10 1911
Description: View towards river with high water flooding over several buildings behind a group of people in the foreground. Identified as the flood of the Black River i...
Photograph

Canoe in a Yard

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Description: View from above, from a roof or balcony, of a canoe on sawhorses near firewood stacked in a yard near a fence. Two buildings are in the yard.
Photograph

Canoeing Scene

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Description: View from shoreline towards two people in a canoe on a river. There is a building on the far shoreline.
Postcard

The First Northern Voyageurs

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Description: Color reproduction of a metal sculpture of two explorers standing near upended canoe. Text on reverse reads: "The First Northern Voyageurs Sculpture b...
Photograph

Group of People Swimming

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Description: View across water towards shoreline. A large group of children and adults are swimming and playing in the water. There is a large building on the shoreline...
Postcard

"On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway"

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Description: Colorized postcard view of the railroad bridge over the Wisconsin River at Kilbourn. A canoe is along the shoreline in the foreground, and excursion boats ...
Postcard

Public Bath

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Description: A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho...
Postcard

River Scene

Date: 08 25 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "River Scene, Stoughton, Wis." Two women in a canoe on the Yahara River near wetlands foliage, with two people on the pedestrian bridg...
Photograph

Making a Birch Bark Canoe

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Description: Three women are kneeling and binding birch bark to a canoe frame. A girl is standing behind the canoe in the center. Buildings are in the background.

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