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Madison from Lake Monona

Date: 1906
Description: View of Madison from Lake Monona with the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the background. This view of Brittingham Park shows a part of the park shortl...
Photograph

Filling In Brittingham Park

Date: 1907
Description: A steam-powered dredge anchored in Monona Bay is filling in Brittingham Park.
Map or Atlas

Map of Door County - Marathon Forms Map Service

Date: 1944
Description: Shows roads, railroads, schools, dairy plants, seaplane bases, wayside parks, and commercial/municipal fields. "Marathon Forms Map Service, Wisconsin repre...
Map or Atlas

General Plan of Brittingham Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: The map reads: "Feb. 3, 1908." Oriented with north to the lower left. Lake Monona, Monona Bay, and Brittingham Park are labelled.
Map or Atlas

Metropolitan Green Bay and Brown County : Map & Street Guide

Date: 1974
Description: This map shows roads, highways, railroads, major arterials, towns, parks, recreational areas, and parts of Fox River and bay of Green Bay. The map includes...
Map or Atlas

City of Ashland

Date: 1900
Description: This map is shows land in white and water in blue and is indexed for parks, points of interest, schools, churches, and recreational areas. The map shows lo...
Map or Atlas

Map of West Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, established dock lines, docks, slips, railroads, streets, selected industrial buildings, sites for manufactories, and...
Map or Atlas

Map of West Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1894
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, railroads, street car tracks, sewers, water mains, gas mains, paved streets, land owned by the Land & River Improveme...
Map or Atlas

Official Map, Village of Howard with Highways, Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1963
Description: This blue line print shows as of March 1960 federal, state, county, and town roads, as well as railroads, schools, churches, town hall, parks, and Brown Co...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows streets, selected buildings, railroads, railway yards, schools, parks, schools, cemeteries, bays, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan. De...
Map or Atlas

Top O' the Thumb, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1960
Description: This map shows public boat ramps, parks, highways, beaches, bluffs, Green Bay, Garrett Bay, Europe Bay and Lake, Rowley's Bay and Ellison Bay. The map incl...
Map or Atlas

Map of Peninsula State Park & Ephraim: Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This map shows campsites, trails, auto roads, surrounding townships, and points of interest, by including pictorial illustrations. Includes an inserted map...
Photograph

Ice Fishing

Date: 01 2014
Description: View from shoreline on a sunny day of snow-covered, frozen Monona Bay. People in the distance are standing or sitting near ice fishing holes and ice fishin...
Map or Atlas

1933 Official Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1933
Description: This road map shows automobile routes across Wisconsin as well as portions of Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. Lakes Michigan, Superior and Winnebag...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1933
Description: This map contains automobile routes across Wisconsin and portions of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan as well. The state borders are clearly defined...
Photograph

Bernie's Beach on Monona Bay

Date: 08 20 2014
Description: View of Monona Bay. Grass and trees are growing along the shoreline. Downtown Madison, including the Wisconsin State Capitol, is on the opposite shoreline.
Book or Pamphlet

Brittingham Bay Panorama

Date: 1914
Description: Panoramic view of Brittingham Bay taken from the north west shore of Brittingham Park. The boathouse is on the left. On the right the railroad tracks cross...
Photograph

Greenbush Neighborhood from the Air

Date: 1960
Description: Air view focused on the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison prior to its demolition for the Triangle Redevelopment Project. Monona Bay and Brittingham Park a...
Photograph

Springtime Cleanup at Brittingham Park

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: A city parks department worker helps with the spring clean-up by raking the lawn at Brittingham Park beside Monona Bay.
Photograph

Mendota Lotus Beds in Full Bloom

Date: 08 10 1957
Description: Unidentified man taking a picture of the Lotus Bed on Lake Mendota. The bed of large, floating white blossoms are at the peak of their bloom.

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