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Rock River Scenery

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Description: Elevated view looking west from the Main Street Bridge, a partially covered wooden bridge spanning the Rock River. In the foreground on the right are boats...
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Concrete Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline toward a concrete bridge. Boathouses are on the opposite shoreline.
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Mayor's Summer Home

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Description: View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th...
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City View

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Description: View of a residential area of Fish Creek, looking out over Fish Creek Harbor.
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Rock River from Fourth Street

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Description: View of Rock River from Fourth Street. Trees line the banks of the river, and a smokestack is in silhouette behind trees in the distance.
Print

Winter Morning at Sister Bay

Date: 1949
Description: Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou...
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Bogue Falaya Landing

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Description: View from across the water of Bogue Falaya Landing and Boat House. Published by C.C. Champagne & Co.
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General City View

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Description: Elevated view of a city along a shoreline. Mountains appear in the background. Published by P.E. Kern, Skagway, & Valdez, Alaska.
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Elevated City View

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Description: Elevated view showing the city, bridges, and boats.
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Cabin on the Shore

Date: 1926
Description: View of rustic cabin with a large stone chimney standing by the shore. There is another house or boathouse in the far background near the remains of a pier...
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Mendota Shoreline with University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse

Date: 1896
Description: View from sloped lawn of the Lake Mendota shoreline, with the Olin boathouse in the foreground, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse on the ri...
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View Along Shoreline Towards University of Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: View along shoreline towards the University of Wisconsin from the foot of North Carroll Street.
Postcard

Yellow Birch Lake on the Eagle Chain

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of fall color on Yellow Birch Lake on the Eagle Chain of Lakes. There is a boathouse on shoreline at the right obscured by trees.
Book or Pamphlet

The Shore Path, E.G. Uihlein's

Date: 1905
Description: Halftone print of the landscaped shoreline and path at Forest Glen, the estate of Edward G. Uihlein, on the western end of Geneva Lake. A flag flies above ...
Book or Pamphlet

Brittingham Bay Panorama

Date: 1914
Description: Panoramic view of Brittingham Bay taken from the north west shore of Brittingham Park. The boathouse is on the left. On the right the railroad tracks cross...
Postcard

Pleasure Drive at Button's Bay, Lake Geneva

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Description: View along road and shoreline, towards a boathouse on the lake among trees with fall colored foliage.
Postcard

Fern Dells

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Fern Dells, Mirror Lake, Delton, Wis. (Near The Dells of The Wisconsin)." Rock formations, trees, boathouse, boat and dock on the sho...

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