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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills, looking west. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of bridge and overhanging tree on Willow Drive at the University. |
| Date: | 09 06 1950 |
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| Description: | The Madison city limits sign on Olin Avenue at Wingra Creek displays the start of the 25 miles per hour speed limit leaving the rural section of road. |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sherman Avenue Bridge and its surrounding area. There are several automobiles driving on the road, with the bridge in the foreground and the ap... |
| Date: | 08 01 1954 |
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| Description: | People look at the Yahara River from the Tenney Park bridge on Sherman Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 12 1954 |
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| Description: | The East Washington Avenue bridge was chosen as the point where a simulated atom bomb struck Madison during a civil defense test, unbeknownst to four canoe... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River... |
| Date: | 12 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Dave Halls is trying out new ice skates he received for Christmas at Tenney Park pond, which is used as a Madison outdoor rink in winter. With ankles wobbl... |
| Date: | 07 12 1953 |
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| Description: | George Karls of Waunakee is shown fishing in Cross Plains creek. |
| Date: | 02 23 1953 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin crew gets into their shell from the dock on the Yahara River with Trachte boat houses in the background. View looking northwest tow... |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | A University of Wisconsin rowing crew prepares for a workout in the Yahara River aboard a scull. Trachte metal boat houses line the shore at right, and the... |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning. |
| Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Winter scene along the Yahara river near the East Johnson Street bridge at Thornton Avenue. Ice is coating the tree limbs, and steam is rising from the wat... |
| Date: | 07 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Boats of the Four Lakes Yacht Club at anchor in the Yahara River. There is a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 05 07 1951 |
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| Description: | George "Dad" Thompson, (left) and Matt Brossard sitting on a bench at Vilas Park Diamond #2 while watching the St James CYO vs. Hardy's softball game, whic... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards the A.G. Zimmerman Bridge in Tenney Park during the winter. Large trees are around the bridge. Note from the property record: "rei... |
| Date: | 07 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Six members of Madison's Four Lakes Yacht Club are shown in a boat. In the back row, left to right, are Tom McKee, Ralph Gregg, and Sherman Olson. In the f... |
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