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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 ... |
Date: | 05 26 1931 |
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Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison crew team holding their long oars, with coxswain on a pier on Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
Date: | 07 29 1935 |
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Description: | Standing on the Alpha Chi Omega sorority pier, Willard Grasser and Robert Estes show what is and is not permitted with regard to men's bathing suits. "The ... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
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... |
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Description: | View from shoreline of a crew rowing a Pabst Shell on Lake Mendota near the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse, with two men in a canoe and people s... |
Date: | 08 19 1941 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men and women taken outdoors at 225 Lake Lawn Place, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, taken for Jack McEhlone. Two men are wearing University ... |
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 29 1935 |
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Description: | Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota. |
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