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| Description: | View across water towards Governor's Island and its exposed cliff at the shoreline with trees and plants growing on top. Governor’s Island, formerly part o... |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Governor's Island. A cutout of an arrow has been added. |
| Date: | 05 16 1908 |
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| Description: | View across water of Governor's Island. There is a far shoreline in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota as well as the area surrounding the Mendota Mental Health Hospital. |
| Date: | 12 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Wrecked pedestrian safety island, University Avenue and Francis Street, struck by the Rev. George E. Hunt. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | The Goose Island Ramblers performing at Johnny's Packers Inn. Their instruments include accordions, guitar, and a fiddle. Tommy McDermott sits in on a but... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Monkey Island, a popular attraction at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). It was built in the 1930s as a WPA project and modeled after one in the Hagen... |
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| Description: | Spectators looking at the Monkey Island at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). This is one of many images photographed by Harold Hone for "Wisconsin: A Guide... |
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| Description: | View across Lake Mendota of Rocky Roost, also known as the Lamp Cottage, located west of Governor's Island. |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited through the Madison Youth Council helped plant trees and shrubs on the Vilas Park island. |
| Date: | 06 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Two Miller's island display window with women's dresses and hats located at 544 State Street. |
| Date: | 06 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Park Hotel, 22 S. Carroll Street, "Sea Island Sugar Co." display window showing various sizes of sugar packages and products. |
| Date: | 05 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Scene from act II of Central high school play "Admirable Crighton," showing Barrie's castaways on their desert island. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The structure was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his childhood friend Robert Lamp. The home's ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1896 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his friend Robert Lamp. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, located west of Governor's Island, Lake Mendota. Robert Lamp, in 1902, had his friend Frank Lloyd Wright design a cottage to be called "Rocky ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A little girl in a puffy dress is peering through the fence for a look onto Monkey Island. |
| Date: | 08 10 1930 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gathered at an accident between a Hooper truck and a Willys-Knight automobile at a safety island at University Avenue and Murray Street. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Rocky Roost, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage on an island in Lake Mendota. A windmill is behind the cottage. Caption reads: "R... |
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