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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Main Street in Bayfield in 1870 with four cows standing in the street. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
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| Description: | House was located at 530 N. Pinckney Street (this is not the house most strongly connected with Swenson called Thorstrand that still exists). According to ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the State Historical Society headquarters building by Paul Duesler. This painting is associated with the 1967 building addition plan... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Watercolor, painted by Max Otto, of Main Hall (later renamed Bascom Hall) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The watercolor predates the 1917 fire tha... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along dirt path in a park. There is a soldier's monument in the background just beyond trees, and a brick building on the left. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Eau Claire Normal School, with a lawn in front, and a small coordinated building to the left with a large smokestack or tower. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of Lake Monona from asylum grounds or Governor's Island. On the far shoreline is Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River, somewhere between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River at Lake Monona. |
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| Description: | Oil painting of a double row of willow trees on University Bay Drive. A trail winds between them. Boulders line the shore of Lake Mendota on the left. A tu... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River at Lake Monona, with trees in the background and wetlands in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River, with large trees on the shoreline. Note: '05 & '06 were the years when Tenney Park and the Yahara River Parkway ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of a canoe and sailboat on Lake Mendota. In the background is the city skyline on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of boats and sailboats on Lake Mendota, looking towards Maple Bluff, perhaps from Governor's Island or Rocky Roost. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River north of Lake Mendota. Trees are on the banks to the left with foliage throughout. A meadow is on the right. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Painting by C.A. Youngquist of an elevated view for the proposed pavilion for the Pan-Pacific exposition. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of a view of downtown Madison from Lake Monona. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the center. |
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