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Fish Creek

Date: 08 11 1950
Description: Aerial view of Eagle Harbor.
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Washington Park Lagoon

Date: 1950
Description: View of people fishing and boating in Washington Park Lagoon. Three boys are fishing with long bamboo poles from the bank on the left, and two boys are in ...
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Lake Mendota Inlet

Date: 1950
Description: A partially frozen inlet from the lake. The view may be from Spring Harbor Park. Docks and piers line the shores. A rowboat partially covered in snow is up...
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Wisconsin Resort

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of Northernaire Resort, on Deer Lake. The resort is in the foreground. Many lakes, surrounded by trees, are in the background, including Big St...
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Bleak November

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and...
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Threatening Skies

Date: 08 1951
Description: Threatening skies loom over boats, piers and boathouses in Eagle harbor.
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Mississippi's Edge

Date: 1950
Description: A boathouse, boat and pier on the frozen shoreline of the Mississippi River. More buildings appear in the background, a snow covered tree on the left and a...
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Summer's End

Date: 1950
Description: Tree-lined view from shoreline looking down at a lake scene of two adults and two children in a rowboat. Lily pads are floating on the surface of the lake ...
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Summer Sport

Date: 1952
Description: Close-up of a small sailboat on Pine Lake. The reflections of the sun from the water make an interesting pattern on the sails.
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Last Light

Date: 1955
Description: Docked sailboats at dusk. There are silhouettes of people standing on the pier in the distance.
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First Venture

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards two men motoring out onto the Menomonee River in the spring.
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Misty Morning

Date: 1956
Description: The Amelia-D is docked at a pier on Green Bay. The shoreline and clouds are in the background. A sailboat and motorboat are moored in the distance.
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Snug Harbor

Date: 1956
Description: Elevated view of a rowboat moored in a small cove on Madeline Island in the Apostle Islands.
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Boat Slip

Date: 1963
Description: Boats moored at a boat slip. In the foreground is a bench near a concrete wall over which rope is hanging in loops.
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Squaw Bay

Date: 10 1962
Description: View from shoreline towards a rowboat is pulled up onto the shore of Squaw Bay on Lake Monona. Trees are in the foreground. The sky is overcast and the wat...
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Boat Dock

Date: 1963
Description: View across water towards a boat dock on Boulder Lake, or Little Rice Lake, with several boats pulled up on the tree-lined shore. There is a pier in the le...
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Winter Mooring

Date: 1976
Description: Fishing boats wintering on Lake Superior, which is frozen and covered with snow. Wooden fishing boxes are strewn in the foreground, and a wooded shoreline ...
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Vacation Fleet

Date: 06 1978
Description: Elevated view of boats moored to a dock at a marina on the Mississippi River in early summer make an interesting pattern. There is a person walking on the ...
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Boathouses on Black River

Date: 1979
Description: Elevated view of boathouses floating on the water at piers along the shore of the Black River. Some of the boathouses have been owned by many generations o...

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