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Iceboat on Lake

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Description: Group of people with an iceboat on a frozen lake (possibly Lake Michigan).
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Iceboats on Lake Crystal

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Description: People use five iceboats on frozen Lake Crystal.
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Bill Ward

Date: 12 29 1956
Description: Portrait of Bill Ward as he prepares to hoist the sail on an iceboat.
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David Rosten and Paul Krueger

Date: 12 29 1956
Description: Portrait of David Rosten and Paul Krueger as they get ready for a ride in an iceboat.
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Tom Krehl

Date: 12 29 1956
Description: Tom Krehl checks the clamps on an iceboat before going out for a ride.
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Iceboat on the Mississippi River

Date: 1905
Description: The iceboat was built by the Ranke boys. There are about forty-nine people posing in front of the boat. Almost everyone is wearing ice skates. Names: Fred ...
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Iceboats on Lake

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Description: View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails.
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Gaff Rigged, Madison Style Iceboat

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Description: View across ice towards two people in an iceboat on Lake Mendota.
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Ice Boat Regatta on Lake Mendota

Date: 1906
Description: View of several ice boats on Lake Mendota. Caption reads: "Ice boat regatta on Lake Mendota--Madison, Wis."
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International Skeeter Association Ice Boat Regatta

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Dave Roston (Madison) skippers "Flying Trump", a Skeeter ice boat (right) around a marker in the International Skeeter Association regatta on Lake Mendota....
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Dave Roston

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Dave Roston, ice-boat skipper, who won Saturday morning's race but finished eighth in the afternoon in the International Skeeter Association re...
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Bill Perrigo

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Bill Perrigo, ice-boat skipper from Pewaukee, who piloted his "Thunder Jet" ice boat to a second place finish in the morning race, and won the ...
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Thunder Jet Ice Boat

Date: 01 23 1955
Description: The ice boat, "Thunder Jet," on a frozen Lake Monona. One of the two men aboard is probably the pilot, Bill "Curley" Perrigo, sitting at the helm or by the...

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