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Town Across Lake

Date: 1905
Description: View of town behind a prairie field and a lake. Caption reads: "Packwaukee, Wis."
Photograph

A Girl at a Lake

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Description: View through trees looking down towards a girl standing on a shoreline looking across a lake. A marshy area is along the far shoreline.
Photograph

Northern Lakes Park

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Description: View from shoreline over a marshy area towards a lake at Northern Lakes Park. There is a tree-covered shoreline in the far background. There may be an isl...
Map or Atlas

Map of Upper and Lower Nashotah Lakes, Showing the Location of the Nashotah Mission

Date: 1934
Description: This map shows the area as it appeared in 1848 and includes buildings, land use, and roads with distances to nearby locations. The upper right corner reads...
Photograph

Landscape with Hills and Mound Near Lake

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Description: Elevated view from a hill of a lake or river surrounded by fields and hills. The water is either marshy, or has been flooded, as trees and plants are growi...
Map or Atlas

A New and Accurate Map of North Carolina in North America

Date: 1779
Description: Map of North Carolina showing counties, cities, towns, chapels, courthouses, Quaker meeting houses, forts, mountains, swamps, inlets, lakes, and rivers. A ...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of the River Mississipi: From the Sea to Bayagoulas

Date: 1761
Description: Map covering southern Louisiana from Lake Ponchetrain to the Golf of Mexico and from Woods Bay in the west to the islands just east of Bay St. Louis. It sh...
Postcard

Lake Waubesa

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Description: View of Lake Waubesa from a hill. A farm is in the distance on the left. The Yahara River is in the foreground. Handwritten caption reads: "Lake Waubesa."
Postcard

Mouth, Yahara River at Waubesa

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Description: View down hill where grassy fields lead down to the Yahara River where it meets Lake Waubesa. Two children are walking through the grass on the left. Capti...
Photograph

Lotus Bed, Turtle Lake

Date: 08 1922
Description: View of a field of plants, including many lotus plants. Buildings are on a low hill in the background on the right.
Photograph

Lotus Bed, Turtle Lake

Date: 08 1922
Description: View of marshland with numerous lotus plants. A forest is in the distance.
Postcard

West End, Long Lake

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "West End, Long Lake, Saxeville, Wis." View of a lake with marshland plants in the foreground. A dock, boat and trees are on the right...

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