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Gaff Rigged, Madison Style Iceboat
View across ice towards two people in an iceboat on Lake Mendota.
Iceboats on Lake Mendota
1896
A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota.
Iceboats on Lake
View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails.
Dutton and Wheeler's Iceboat
March 8, 1896
Three men stand near a large iceboat owned by Dutton and Wheeler on Lake Mendota.
Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race
January 20, 1950
Iceboats line up on Lake Monona for the Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race. Shown are Madison iceboats "Fritz" and "Mary B," and Oshkosh iceboats "Penguin" and "Flying Dutchman."
Iceboat
1953
Jim Lunder and another man dressed in heavy winter clothing sit on the iceboat "Fritz" on frozen Lake Monona (?).
