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| Description: | Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Map showing the parcel of land on the shore of Lake Monona acquired by the City of Madison for a park (today known as Olbrich Park). |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A detail of a Sanborn map including Catfish Creek and Westport Road by Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from snowy shoreline towards a bridge over Wingra Creek, between Lake Wingra and Lake Monona, in Vilas Park. The road over the bridge leads into the U... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The mill race as it flows from Lake Mendota into Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This 1925 map of Dane County, Wisconsin, issued by the Madison Association of Commerce shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villa... |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of a cascade of water over boulders in a stream. Trees and foliage are growing on both sides. The scene may be Madison Creek, west of... |
| Date: | 01 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Murphy's Creek (now Wingra Creek) entrance to Lake Monona, the site where 2-year-old's Toni Dussling and Haskell Furumos drowned. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | This map of the Four Lakes region shows points of interest around the lakes, state trunk highways and other roads, railroads, and lakes and streams. Manusc... |
| Date: | 08 2013 |
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| Description: | View across rocks in a stream towards a board pathway that vanishes into the distance. Oak savanna in late summer. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | First fishing near Vilas Park on Murphy's Creek (now known as Wingra Creek.) Many people are set up to fish on both sides of the tree-lined banks. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | These maps of the towns of Westport, Madison, and Blooming Grove, Dane County, Wisconsin, show sections, roads, trails, lakes and streams, and wetlands fro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This map from the turn of the 20th century shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, land owned by the Starks Levis Land Company of Madison, scho... |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of one forming the background that shows a man with a pipe in his mouth, fishing at the edge of an inlet of a lake and stream, and of ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across stream in marshy area towards a group of people gathered around an aircraft wreck. |
| Date: | 10 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Grist mill on a river. In the foreground is the mill stream with trees and shrubs on the shorelines. |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Five teen boys stand ankle deep in Black Earth Creek (west of Cross Plains) while working together to build a conversion dam in the creek bed. The boys are... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Three teen boys work together to build up the side of the creek to stop the flowing water from washing the soil away on an edge of Black Earth Creek west o... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Two teen boys and an adult stand in ankle deep Black Earth Creek (west of Cross Plains) while working together to build a "V" shaped conversion dam, pointi... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | The map reads: "Dartford is centrally located in Wisconsin, on the north side of Green Lake, and in full view of that beautiful sheet of Water. Its precise... |
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