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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Monona Bay from the railroad trestle looking southwest, close to where the railroad tracks cross North Shore Drive, (now Brittingham Park), with old houses... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | View from water of bridge collapsed into the river, with the metal supports half submerged and the brick base crumbling. Dwellings can be seen along the hi... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water toward mill ruins on the shoreline. A pile of logs are next to the dilapidated structure. In the far background is a bridge and ... |
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| Description: | A view across water towards a group of boys playing in and around the water near a shoreline. Many of the boys are barefoot. They are surrounded by wreckag... |
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| Description: | View of a water pump near the door of a dilapidated house, overgrown with vines. |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
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| Description: | Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two children look towards the photographer by a drainage ditch with buildings on all sides. Laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row of dilap... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A girl fills a bucket at a water hydrant near a drainage ditch. Buildings are on either side, and laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row o... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "The hydrant (blurred right center foreground) is shared by 21 people in 8 families. No streetlights, though the alley is well over 100 yards long. The lan... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | In the foreground, a man with a cane on a porch looks down towards the camera. In the background, a man walks down the alley. "The alley is long, dark and ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two young girls stand near a water hydrant. "Hydrant placed on edge of steep bank. Used by 30 people in 9 families. Four of these families (17 people) live... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "A water faucet located at the top of the hill (the upper end of the alley) behind the boy is used by eleven families, 28 people, who live in the buildings... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "This hydrant supplies ten families (sixteen persons) with water. Three of these persons are over sixty-five-years-old and live alone." Griffin Alley hou... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View looking down at the remains of an old dam. Driftwood has been caught up at the broken wood pilings on the far shoreline. The river is flowing fast, an... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a dam on a river. There is a collapsed bridge in front of the dam, and people standing on the road on the right. Identified as possibly th... |
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| Description: | View towards section of a collapsed bridge along a riverbank. There is another bridge spanning the river in the background. |
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| Description: | View across the Yahara River towards a tall smokestack on the opposite shoreline, with Lake Mendota in the background. Remnants of the foundation and suppo... |
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