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Shipping Pier at McCormick Works

Date: 02 05 1912
Description: View across icy water towards men posing on a ship at a shipping pier at McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background.
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Two International Scouts Entering Closed Road

Date: 12 29 1975
Description: Two International Scouts entering a closed road. The roads appear to be unplowed and on a mountain. Sign reads, "Road Closed no winter maintenance." Origin...
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International Skeeter Association Regatta

Date: 01 13 1961
Description: Ice boats on lake Monona during the International Skeeter Association regatta.
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International Skeeter Association Regatta

Date: 01 13 1961
Description: Two ice-boaters compare notes during the International Skeeter Association regatta on lake Monona. Bill Perrigo (left) talks with Jack Ripp of the host Fou...
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International Skeeter Association Regatta

Date: 01 13 1961
Description: Iceboats on Lake Monona at the 18th annual International Skeeter Association regatta.
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View Across Bridge Toward Bluffs

Date: 1907
Description: View looking across a bridge with steel struts toward a bluff with frozen ice falls from the snowy hill above. Signs painted on the rock faces read: "G[eo...
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Frozen Ice Fall on Bluff

Date: 1907
Description: View down snowy road along a bluff with frozen ice falls on the rock faces. Two signs are painted on the bluff. One reads: "Painting and Paper Hanging, R. ...
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Passengers Disembarking Ship in Winter

Date: 1906
Description: Caption reads: "Manitowoc, Wis.? 1906. Passengers disembarking ship in winter." A group of people are sitting and standing at the side of a bridge in the l...
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Wall Spalding Planing Mill

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Description: View across water towards a large building above a waterfall. Ice is coating the sides of the river. A bridge is in the foreground on the left. Railroad ca...
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Thin Ice on Lake Monona at Law Park Shoreline

Date: 04 14 1959
Description: Thin ice off the Law Park shoreline. The ice protruding from the shoreline is the residue of a huge pile of snow dumped along the shoreline by city snow re...
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Ice Cycles

Date: 02 12 1959
Description: Icicles hanging from the steps of a fire escape.
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Winter on the Shore of Lake Mendota

Date: 11 29 1958
Description: Two twin brothers, Dan and Dave Westbury are turning their backs to the wind coming off Lake Mendota at Conklin (James Madison) park.
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McDougall Whaleback

Date: 1893
Description: Men are standing in the foreground on the ice-covered whaleback docked in Superior. Signs on the pilot house at the back of the boat read "Mather" on the l...
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Cutting Ice on Namakagon Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of three men cutting and loading ice into a dump truck on Namakagon Lake. One man is guiding ice blocks through open water to a conv...
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Community House and Library

Date: 1940
Description: Single-story vertical log building with both a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front vestibule. Snow is on the roof and ground around the b...
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Princess III in Action

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Description: Caption on front reads: "Princess III in Action". A view across the lake towards the Princess III on Lake Monona with the Fauerbach Brewery in the b...
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Ice-Covered Truck in Cold Lab

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Description: A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera...
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Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse is near Potawatomi State Park, north of St...
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Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sturgeon Bay, Door County." On reverse: "Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Door County. North Pierhead Light. Winter shows its pretty face on ...
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Ice Breaking Up

Date: 08 07 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Ice Breaking Up, Spring '08, Lake Kegonsa, Stoughton, Wis." Broken chunks of ice are piled on the shore of Lake Kegonsa during the sp...

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