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Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
Date: | 06 1837 |
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Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
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Description: | Two boys lying on the grass asleep in Tenney Park near the lagoon with a hat on the ground between them. The Sherman Avenue bridge and the Hausmann Brewery... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View of a group of people in a large model launch with an American flag. Caption reads: "On Mendota Lake near University of Wisconsin-Madison Boat House." |
Date: | 03 09 1878 |
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Description: | Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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Description: | Eight Girl Scouts kneeling around a campfire inside a campfire ring at Camp Indianola. |
Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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Description: | Eight Girl Scouts are standing on and near a tree at the edge of Lake Mendota, with the Madison skyline in the background at Camp Indianola. |
Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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Description: | Two men are standing next in front of two automobiles parked at the rear of the Fauerbach Brewing Co., 651-653 Williamson Street. The Lake Monona shoreline... |
Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
Date: | 07 08 1935 |
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Description: | Group portrait of children's rhythm band in uniform, posing on the lake shore terrace at Rutledge and S. Brearly Streets. They are getting ready to play an... |
Date: | 04 18 1935 |
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Description: | Miss Pyre standing next to a Ford V-8 coupe near a bridge at Tenney Park. A building with a tower is in the background, perhaps the Hausmann Brewing Compan... |
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