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Madison-Devil's Lake Youth Hostel Trails

Date: 06 1938
Description: Map showing major highways and trails from Madison to Devil's Lake for Neighborhood House American Youth Hostel group trips. Routes of four trips are drawn...
Photograph

Path Through the Main Grounds

Date: 1993
Description: A path winds through dense ground cover and under tall evergreen trees past the guest house towards the maid's quarters and the main lodge. The guest house...
Photograph

Flower and Vegetable Gardens

Date: 1954
Description: Tall flowers, possibly delphiniums and hollyhocks, grow between a stone wall and a grass path. A vegetable garden grows on the other side of the path, and ...
Photograph

Boardwalk and Birch-lined Steps to the Main Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: Boardwalk leading to wood steps lined with young birch trees that leads uphill to the main lodge side door. Grasses, shrubs and evergreen trees grow on eit...
Photograph

Birch-lined Path to Lake Namakagon

Date: 2000
Description: Looking downhill on flagstone and wood plank path edged by giant birch trees, as well as grasses and evergreens.
Postcard

Hog's Back

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Hog's Back, Tomahawk, Wis." The Hog's Back is a tree covered peninsula on Lake Mohawksin, also the former name of Bradley Park. A man...
Postcard

John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort

Date: 08 05 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort." A man stands on a trail, gazing over shrubs at a bay on Lake Michigan. The shoreline is surrounded ...
Postcard

Maple Avenue

Date: 10 28 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Maple Ave., Sawyer, Wis." A view of an unpaved street with a church and other buildings on the right. On the left is a path, fence an...
Postcard

Alfred L. Boerner Botanical Garden

Date: 1958
Description: Irises along a path in Whitnall Park. Text on reverse reads: "Over 400 varieties of iris grow in the perennial borders. Thousands of blooms can be seen ...
Photograph

Snowy Birches

Date: 1976
Description: Snow covered Birch trees line a path in a forest after a storm.
Photograph

Autumn Hush

Date: 1956
Description: A walking trail in a ravine through the woods.
Photograph

Lake Mendota Shoreline

Date: 1926
Description: Lake Mendota, including Fraternity Row and east side shoreline, taken from the lake path on University Bay Drive.
Photograph

TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View down trail towards a man using a TD-24. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph...
Photograph

TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View towards man using a TD-24 to load logs onto a truck. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information wi...
Photograph

Path through Tent Colony Woods

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: Path, "main street," through the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake Mendota, west ...
Photograph

Farm Buildings

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: View down two-track path in a field towards farm implements and farm buildings.
Postcard

Old Faithful Spring, Prentice Park, Ashland, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: A child is holding out a bowl to a pillar from which water is cascading down into a spring. In the background, two other children are walking up a dirt pat...
Photograph

Enchanted Lane

Date: 1957
Description: Sun and shadow dapple a snowy scene in Brown Deer Park. A trail is bordered by two timber fences. Trees and shrubs are heavily covered with snow.
Photograph

Quiet Lane

Date: 1956
Description: Snow scene of a lane line on each side with timber fences, possibly a bridge. Trees are overhead and in the distance.
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Snowy Sentinels

Date: 1955
Description: A path in Brown Deer Park after a snow storm. Fresh snow is covering the ground and trees.

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