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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting beside spring, perhaps at Winnequah or Picnic Point in Madison. All of them are either holding or are wearing hats. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across lake towards fisherman casting before spectators. Gibraltar Rock, northwest of Lodi, Wisconsin, is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Large picnic group, mainly children, at lakeshore, possibly McBride's Point in Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed young couples sit in the foreground. In the background is a picket fence running along a busy road with horse and buggy traffic. Further on is... |
| Date: | 06 1877 |
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| Description: | A huge crowd, mostly men, has gathered on the bank of Devil's Lake to witness the firing of a cannon. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June 21-22, 18... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A large well-dressed group of men and women, with a scattering of children, posed outdoors near a lake. This group portrait may be at Maple Bluff on Lake M... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Women in hats in foreground, with railroad tracks below and sign that says, "Look out for the cars," and "While the bell rings the whistle blows." Very lik... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Talus Slope at Devil's Lake. Rocky shoreline with slope, pine trees, rock pile and formation. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Courtyard at Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. The house has a stone first floor, a balcony on ea... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Swimming in the lake with the Cliff House in background. Cliff House was a resort hotel built shortly after 1872, when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Bo... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Three-story frame house with balcony on each floor. There is a ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View of the Capitol Square from the roof of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south. The view includes the Park Hotel, The Baptist Church and St. Raphae... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, Sauk County, June 21st & 22nd, 1877", with spectators watching rowing shells race. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards the northwest across West Washington Avenue of the Congregationalist Church. Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) of the University of Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A Norwegian Sunday school picnic, perhaps held at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. The original stereograph is in the collection of the Norwegian-American Hist... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of men, women and children, at a lake shore, possibly Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. The Norwegian flag suggests... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A distant view of Clinton, now Rockdale, in Christiana Township looking across the millpond on Koshkonong Creek towards the town. |
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