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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... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of Clinton, now Rockdale. Three men are in the middle distance, looking east across Koshonong Creek towards a mill dam, bridge and ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge. Trees are in the foreground, with Lake Mendota and the far shoreline in the distance. Original caption reads: "Rustic Bridge on ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jane and Jone Johnson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Johnson of Black River Falls, on the bridge over the lagoon at Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking southwest along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad causeway. Two boys fish from the bridge. The sign declares "Private Property. No Thor... |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of the Philgas softball team watching play during a Mendota League game in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Henry Vilas Park, with two bridges and Lake Wingra in the background. |
| Date: | 05 07 1951 |
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| Description: | George "Dad" Thompson, (left) and Matt Brossard sitting on a bench at Vilas Park Diamond #2 while watching the St James CYO vs. Hardy's softball game, whic... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The rustic iron bridge on University Drive. The sign on the left advertises a $25.00 Reward. Lake Mendota is visible on the right. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen leads the parade of boats that opened the new Tenney Park lock on Saturday morning. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Scene along “Willow Drive,” later known as "University Drive," on the shore of Lake Mendota, showing the neo-Gothic carved bridge. View from shoreline of t... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A detail of a Sanborn map including Catfish Creek and Westport Road by Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | View down dirt road towards a tall smokestack near the Yahara River bridge where the river flows into Lake Mendota. The smokestack is the remainder of Leon... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | The typed caption on the reverse of this photograph explains: "On the bridge above the underground lake in Cave of the Mounds at Blue Mounds, Wis., Arthur ... |
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