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Picnic Point

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Description: Picnic Point from across University Bay.
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Picnic and Second Points

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Description: An aerial view of both Picnic Point and Second Point looking toward the isthmus. Members of the Jackson Family had summer homes at Second Point at this tim...
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Campus and Wisconsin State Capitol from Picnic Point

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Description: View from Picnic Point towards the campus and Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Observatory and Lake Mendota

Date: 1910
Description: Observatory building on hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background.
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Picnic Point

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill with flowers and trees in "the daisy field" on the Lake Mendota shoreline between Raymer’s Cove and Wally Bauman Woods in the current Lakesh...
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Picnic Point on Lake Mendota

Date: 1888
Description: View of Picnic Point stretching out into Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Picnic Point on Lake Mendota

Date: 1888
Description: View of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The peninsula juts into Lake Mendota. The far shoreline can be seen in the distance.
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Picnic Point

Date: 11 24 1898
Description: Elevated view from the top of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall) of Picnic Point on Lake Mendota from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Picnic Point from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1900
Description: Picnic Point from shoreline of Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a university building on the hill on the left, and a pi...
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Picnic Point

Date: 1935
Description: View through trees of Lake Mendota and Picnic Point from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Tripp Hall and Adams Hall

Date: 1930
Description: View from hill of Tripp Hall and Adams Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background.
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University of Wisconsin - University Bay

Date: 04 1896
Description: View from Chi Psi porch on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is stretching towards the right in the far background. There appears to...
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University Drive along Lake Mendota

Date: 1916
Description: University Drive along Lake Mendota. Picnic Point can be seen across the lake. Caption reads: "University Drive."
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University of Wisconsin

Date: 1929
Description: View from the tower of the Congregational Church towards Lake Mendota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is in the center backgro...
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Rocky Shoreline

Date: 08 23 1964
Description: View from a rocky shoreline of a tree-lined peninsula in the distance.
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Shanty Bay at Peninsula State Park

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Description: Elevated view of Shanty Bay at Peninsula State Park, established in 1910.
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Eagle Cliff at Peninsula State Park

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Description: View across water towards Eagle Cliff at Peninsula State Park, established in 1910.
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Picnic Point

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Description: People gather on the bank of Picnic Point, a tree-covered peninsula surrounded by water. A man and two children paddle a canoe along the shoreline.
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Door County Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A well-dressed man identified as Uncle Rudolph Schenck takes in the view from a bluff overlooking the Fish Creek valley and harbor. There are houses and ou...
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Europe Bay

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view looking north across the wooded peninsula separating Europe Bay (top) from Newport Bay. This area is now part of Newport State Park.

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