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Filter: Subject of canoes and canoeing
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| Description: | View across water towards Lew Porter, a Madison architect, in a sailing canoe with two sails. |
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| Description: | Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map shows a canoe route between Madison and Milwaukee. Includes text and an inset map of the route from Milwaukee to Madison. Shows the area around We... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a couple in a canoe floating through a lotus bed. Caption reads: :Lotus Bed in Lake Mendota, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from Lake Mendota of house at 630 N. Lake Street. Robert C. Spencer, architect. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837." |
| Date: | 06 29 1949 |
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| Description: | A truckload of canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue, with eight employees standing in front. In the background is the Ben Franklin... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed Julia and Julius Jacobson looking at Indian artifacts at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum during their wedding trip to Madison... |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | A truckload of twenty-eight aluminum canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue. They were transported from Long Island, New York. The B... |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Al and Neva Reque and six of their salesmen standing in front of a load of new aluminum canoes, from Long Island, New York, at Madison Marine Service, 2102... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down the Yahara River. In the foreground a canoe is tied to a small dock, and in the background is a bridge. |
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| Description: | Photograph of a woodcut of the Eben and Roseline Peck cabin. It was built by or for Roseline, the first white settler in Madison. The drawing was inspired ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map shows a canoe route from Madison to Milwaukee, with total mileage of 237 miles. Includes proposed 1837 route of Milwaukee-Rock River Canal approv... |
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| Description: | The ethnology room in the State Historical Society museum. |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Man loading a canoe onto a Berg's cartop carrier. |
| Date: | 05 16 1908 |
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| Description: | View from the water (probably Lake Mendota) of summer cottages at Blackhawk. There is a pavilion at the shoreline. There are two people canoeing near the s... |
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| Description: | Walter Dunn dressed as a trapper is giving a demonstration to onlookers. |
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