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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A panoramic aerial view of the Isthmus taken from a kite. Lake Mendota is to the right in the background with Picnic Point jutting into the lake. The photo... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 05 05 1931 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Picnic Point on Lake Mendota from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Soils building. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View through willow trees on Picnic Point across University Bay of Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Kraftwood, the rural estate of the Kraft family of the Kraft Foods Co. of Wisconsin. The estate is situated on a peninsula jutting into Ente... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison's Willow Beach towards the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, downtown Madison, and Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Capitol with its new dome, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, including Bascom Hall, taken from Picnic Point. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from Observatory Hill in winter. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin from Picnic Point. Buildings that can be seen are Bascom Hall with dome, the Students' Observatory, Washburn Observatory, the D... |
| Date: | 03 24 1913 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota as well as the area surrounding the Mendota Mental Health Hospital. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Observatory building on hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill with flowers and trees in "the daisy field" on the Lake Mendota shoreline between Raymer’s Cove and Wally Bauman Woods in the current Lakesh... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from shoreline of Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a university building on the hill on the left, and a pi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View through trees of Lake Mendota and Picnic Point from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of Tripp Hall and Adams Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | University Drive along Lake Mendota. Picnic Point can be seen across the lake. Caption reads: "University Drive." |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from the tower of the Congregational Church towards Lake Mendota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is in the center backgro... |
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