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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 05 05 1931 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota along the shore of the University of Wisconsin. A boathouse with a roofed pavilion above is on the right. In the foreground is a man rowing a ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a vacation home west of Governor's Island, in Lake Mendota. Frank Lloyd Wright served as the architect in the remodeling (in 1901 and 1903) of... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park. A mast with flags is standing outside of the club near the water. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two rowboats docked in a river surrounded by trees, following a recent snowfall. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the city from across Lake Mendota at Picnic Point. There is a tree on the shoreline on the left, and a person is in a boat near the shoreline in th... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View along the steep shoreline of possibly Lake Mendota. In the foreground there is a veranda looking over the lake with various docks and boats in the bac... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The sun is setting in the distance with three small boats docked at the pier. |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of tree-lined distant shore, beyond which can be seen the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol, and on the right, St. Raphael's Catholic... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is behind the boathouse. In the left corner, a rowing ream is on t... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Terrace at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Pedestrians are walking along the shoreline of Lake Mendota. The University of... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from shoreline of Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a university building on the hill on the left, and a pi... |
| Date: | 07 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Tenney Park breakwater and Lake Mendota. The city of Madison was able to resume construction at no cost. The construction company tearing up East Washingto... |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
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