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Filter: Subject of lakes
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A copse of birch trees in the woods alongside a lake. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mirror Lake, below the dam at Timme Mill. Trees and foliage cover the banks and overhang the water. The one lane high reverse metal truss bridge, commonly ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a boy standing on a pier overlooking a lake. In the foreground are flowering trees. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of ice fishermen on the ice next to a lake. Their paths and footprints make an interesting pattern in the snow. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Water and reflections at Big Foot Beach State Park on Buttons Bay, Geneva Lake. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View of the shoreline of Geneva Lake in winter. Ice has built up on the foliage on the shore. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Wood from a dead tree on the Lake Wisconsin shoreline protruding from the water, and silhouetted against the reflection of a dramatic sky. The far shore is... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards a woman posing on a spit of land jutting into a lake, seen through birch trees in the spring. Caption reads: "Spring comes suddenly t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Docked sailboats at dusk. There are silhouettes of people standing on the pier in the distance. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Willow Drive is covered with snow. A view of the Wisconsin State Capitol can be seen through the trees. |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | A small flock of seagulls landing on the surface of the lake. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Rock formation, Devil's Doorway, in the snow. In the background Devil's Lake is frozen and bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Sailboats "coming about" on Big Cedar Lake. The crew is under the sail of the boat in the center. In the distance is a tree-lined shore. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| 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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