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Photograph

Picnic Point

Date: 05 05 1931
Description: View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline.
Photograph

University of WIsconsin vs. Harvard Crew Race

Date: 05 22 1954
Description: Two nine-men rowing crews racing on Lake Mendota as motor boats full of spectators are looking on. It was the Harvard crew's first visit to Madison and the...
Painting

Boats on Lake Mendota

Date: 1905
Description: Watercolor painting of boats and sailboats on Lake Mendota, looking towards Maple Bluff, perhaps from Governor's Island or Rocky Roost.
Postcard

Picnic Point

Date: 1980
Description: Aerial shot directly over Picnic Point. Boats are in the lake. Text on reverse reads: "Picnic Point — A peninsula of the University of Wisconsin campus jut...
Postcard

Cedar Point

Date: 08 10 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Cedar Point, Lake Kegonsa." Cottages, docks and trees on the shore of a bay, with the shoreline curving to the right and a point of l...

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