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Group at Bethesda Spring

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Description: Group assembled at Bethesda Mineral Spring.
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Silver Spring

Date: 1896
Description: View of Silver Spring and the surrounding countryside. In the background, there is a man on a bicycle, two individuals in a horse-drawn vehicle and a small...
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Spring on Lake Mendota

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Description: View of a large spring on Lake Mendota, to the west of the University of Wisconsin. A man crouches at the stone wall surrounding the spring, and a small bu...
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Women and Child at Spring

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Description: Five women and a child walk across a plank bridge to the spring at Rock Spring Park. The woman third from the left is Laura Jones.
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A Lone Tree

Date: 06 06 1894
Description: A view at the mouth of the Wabash River of a lone tree on what appears to be a peninsula.
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Messenger's Spring

Date: 1906
Description: Four men, identified as Charles E. Brown of Milwaukee, Joyce W. Caron, H.E. Cole (second from right), and A.B. Stout, all of Baraboo, rest at Messenger's S...
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Blue Spring

Date: 07 02 1925
Description: Charles E. Brown (pointing) and A.O. Barton, both of Madison, stand on a boardwalk at Blue Spring. The spring feeds the lake of the same name.
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Woman at Spring

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified woman stands beside a stone spring house at a spring between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth.
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Men at a Spring

Date: 1925
Description: Three unidentified men and a dog at a spring near the north shore of Lake Mendota. General Henry Dodge camped here in 1832, before the Black Hawk War.
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Park Spring

Date: 1905
Description: Travelers stop by a spring in the woods for water with their early-model automobile. Two boys are standing at the spring, and a young girl stands above the...
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Spring in the Country

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Description: A man kneels by large spring surrounded by split-rail fencing.
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Lithia Spring

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Description: Lithia Spring shaded by an embellished wooden awning and located on an wooded trail.
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Lithia Spring

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Description: Close view of Lithia Spring which is built-up with stones and has tree trunks as a base for an (out of frame) roof overhead.
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Saratoga Springs Grotto

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Description: Elevated view of a man and young girl relaxing at a natural-spring grotto park. The spring feeds a fountain set into a paved and sunken courtyard with an a...
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Spangler's Spring

Date: 1900
Description: Spangler's Spring on the Gettysburg battlefield.
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At The Spring

Date: 1863
Description: "At the Spring," a woodcut illustration from McElroy's "Andersonville: Story of Southern Prisons."
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Hut at Washington Springs

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Description: A set of stone stairs leads to a small soldiers' hut inhabited during the American Revolution. This view of the hut in a wooded area shows a door, a window...
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Sulpho-Saline Spring Pavilion

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Description: View of the Sulpho-Saline Spring Pavilion, built in 1917 according to the plans of George Kessler and architect Henry F. Hoit. A woman sits on a bench outs...
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The Excelsior Saline Water Company Office

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Description: Exterior of an office at the Excelsior Saline Water Company. Two United States flags mark the doorway, and benches line the exterior walls. On the front ...
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Pertle Springs and Bandstand

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Description: A view of a bandstand and Pertle Springs, an iron-rich spring whose name comes from William S. Purtle, the owner of the land in the early 1800's. A man sit...

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