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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... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five people huddled under blankets on a raft. The shadow of a camera and the photographer are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett boat, with a dark tent and eighteen-by-twenty-two camera at a riverbank. An assistant is reclining on the edge of the river next to the boat. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett with camera near Steamboat Rock. There is a man on shore reading, and a woman in a canoe at the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 05 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota shore looking west with A.L. Dahl's photographer's wagon on shore and the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct on the line along the Milwaukee River. The viaduct has two arched passages, and stones and rocks lining the path f... |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 10 1987 |
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| Description: | "Winfred Herberg, a perennial jokester, does a spoof on how to clean a camera lens." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Bennett's crew hauling a portable darkroom through a pond of water. They are on their way to Stand Rock. Text at right: "Wanderings Among th... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Laurie Peterson, standing, and Muriel Peterson, kneeling, pose as if taking photographs of James seated on the ground. They each hold a camera. James is tu... |
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| Description: | View of groups of people sitting at picnic tables under rows of trees that lead down to a lake at a resort. More people are standing or walking near buildi... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Howard Greene (Dad) is changing negative plates in his large format camera on the banks of the Presque Isle River. |
| Date: | 03 27 1937 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a well-dressed man and woman posing in front of a car while another man takes their photograph. A woman and young girl are lookin... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent... |
| Date: | 08 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man taking a picture of the Lotus Bed on Lake Mendota. The bed of large, floating white blossoms are at the peak of their bloom. |
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