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Madison-Devil's Lake Youth Hostel Trails

Date: 06 1938
Description: Map showing major highways and trails from Madison to Devil's Lake for Neighborhood House American Youth Hostel group trips. Routes of four trips are drawn...
Photograph

Lake Mendota Shoreline

Date: 1926
Description: Lake Mendota, including Fraternity Row and east side shoreline, taken from the lake path on University Bay Drive.
Photograph

Path through Tent Colony Woods

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: Path, "main street," through the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake Mendota, west ...
Photograph

Lake Mendota from Tenney Park

Date: 1902
Description: A view across Lake Mendota from Tenney Park. A group of four children are on the near shoreline. A group of adults are standing and sitting in the midgroun...
Photograph

Summer School Camp

Date: 1955
Description: View down worn path towards several tents pitched on platforms along a slope. The caption on the back reads: "Tents for summer school students in the Eagle...
Photograph

Road into the Woods West of Blue Mounds

Date: 04 28 2015
Description: View down a gravel path leading into a forest. The trees are bare of leaves, but the grass is green. A wood marker is at the intersection of a dirt path on...
Photograph

Tiger at the Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 10 27
Description: View through fence of a tiger walking along a path in an enclosure at the zoo.
Photograph

Pathway to Gardner Marsh

Date: 10 10 2014
Description: View down a wooden boardwalk with a viewing platform at the end. The view through the trees reveals the preserved wetlands within the Arboretum, called Gar...
Photograph

Yahara Park Place at Lake Monona

Date: 09 03 2014
Description: View across lawn towards Lake Monona through the trees and tall grasses growing along the shoreline. There is a bench in the foreground next to a dirt path...
Photograph

The Tunnel

Date: 05 2014
Description: Silhouette of a person riding a bicycle through a pedestrian tunnel under East Johnson Street near the Yahara River and Tenney Park. Above the entrance to ...
Photograph

Into the Woods

Date: 12 2013
Description: View down a snowy path through trees, which is lined on one side by a small wire fence on wood posts.
Photograph

A Path in the Woods

Date: 08 2013
Description: View across rocks in a stream towards a board pathway that vanishes into the distance. Oak savanna in late summer.
Painting

University Bay Drive

Date: 
Description: Oil painting of a double row of willow trees on University Bay Drive. A trail winds between them. Boulders line the shore of Lake Mendota on the left. A tu...
Photograph

Path Through the Woods

Date: 
Description: Original caption reads, "The path through the Woods-U.W." A sunken dirt path is lined with tree and brush.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Grounds

Date: 
Description: View down tree-lined path on the University of Wisconsin grounds.
Photograph

Quarry Drive

Date: 03 20 1986
Description: View of Quarry Drive, a sunken path lined with trees, near Mendota Heights. Branches and stones obstruct the pathway.
Photograph

Footbridge Over Lagoon at Tenney Park

Date: 1900
Description: View from path of a footbridge over the lagoon in Tenney Park. A man is walking along the path on the right. Trees are along the shoreline.
Photograph

Lover's Lane

Date: 
Description: A path along railroad tracks on the left and a river on the right. Tall bushes are along the river. Trees and a fence are to the left lining the railroad t...
Photograph

Catholic Church

Date: 1924
Description: Side view of the Catholic Church from the bottom of a low hill. Two more buildings are on the left and right behind the church. Bare trees are in the lawn ...
Photograph

Lovers' Lane

Date: 
Description: View down dirt path through a wooded area. Beyond the trees are houses and buildings.

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