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Drawing

Road at Madison

Date: 08 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of a dirt road through the woods with added white highlights. A horse-drawn wagon with two passengers moves down the road in the distance, ...
Photograph

Picnic Point from Farms

Date: 03 24 1913
Description: Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill.
Photograph

Aerial View of Universitiy of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum including a portion of Lake Wingra and surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Photograph

Aerial View University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum including the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Photograph

Twin Pines Tree Clinic

Date: 11 16 1949
Description: Orrie Kreger, who is in charge of trees and grounds at the Poynette game farm, shows some charts to three honorary members of his Twin Pines Tree Clinic, a...
Photograph

National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Three women employees of Forest Products Laboratory and members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, pose around a microscope. The club i...
Map or Atlas

Truax Field Long-Range Plan

Date: 1970
Description: Color coded map. Legend in the top left hand corner reads: "EXISTING AIRPORT PAVEMENT" (purple), "FUTURE 5-YEAR DEVELOPMENT" (bright pink), "ULTIMATE AIRPO...
Photograph

A Path in the Woods

Date: 08 2013
Description: View across rocks in a stream towards a board pathway that vanishes into the distance. Oak savanna in late summer.
Photograph

Fog in the Woods

Date: 12 2013
Description: Fallen trees and leaves lying in the snow. A light fog is rolling through the woods.
Photograph

View of Cherokee Marsh

Date: 
Description: View of Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh amidst trees and shrubs. The site was where plans for the Ducks Unlimited southern Wisconsin chapter were ...
Photograph

Into the Woods

Date: 07 2014
Description: Among the trees catching the sunlight streaming to the forest bed after a night of thunderstorms is the newly exposed core of a once tall tree glistening i...
Photograph

Woods Along the South Shore of Lake Wingra

Date: 10 22 2014
Description: Woods with trees with yellow leaves. Yellow and green leaves cover the ground.
Photograph

The Arboretum in Winter

Date: 01 11 2015
Description: Fallen tree trunks and branches laying in the snow. More trees, covered in snow, surround the fallen trunk.
Photograph

Sandhill Crane Sign at the Arboretum

Date: 01 11 2015
Description: A sign with a large photograph of the head of a Sandhill crane is standing at the edge of a forest on a trail. The ground is covered in snow. There are hou...
Photograph

Sycamore Tree in the Arboretum

Date: 03 04 2015
Description: View of a white sycamore tree in a snowy field against a blue sky. A forest of leafless trees are in the background.
Photograph

Path at the Edge of Lake Wingra

Date: 05 11 2015
Description: A dirt path winding down a hill through trees in a woods.
Manuscript

Bordner Survey Sketch Map of Picnic Point and Lake Mendota Shoreline

Date: 01 13 1937
Description: Sketch map of Township 7 North, Range 9 East, created for the Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey). The map shows Picnic Point and the Lake Mendota sho...
Photograph

Arboretum Brush Fire

Date: 03 08 1954
Description: Brush fire in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.
Photograph

Oil Painting of Autumn Scene

Date: 08 1976
Description: Photograph of an original oil painting of an autumn scene by Sid Boyum. The work shows a small, solitary man in dark greenish hat and coat using a walking ...
Photograph

New Headquarters of the Forest Products Research Society at 1 Walnut Street

Date: 06 12 1958
Description: The new headquarters of the Forest Products Research Society located at 1 Walnut Street.

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