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| Description: | View along right side of shoreline toward a Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul train crossing a bridge over the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
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| Description: | The bow of sidewheel excursion, "Saint Paul," at shore. Passengers are on all three decks. Sign on bow reads: "St. Louis, Dubuque, St. Paul." Later named t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over a frozen cliff on Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the Soo Line railroad bridge crossing the Tomahawk River at Bradley, Wisconsin. The bridge, built in 1886, was 126 ft. long and... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, elegantly dressed, posing on a pier, with a steamboat and rowboats docked on it on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamb... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View west from the Cliff House at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." Spectators sit on the railroad bed at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A stereograph showing spectators gathered behind the starter's cannon on Devil's Lake. |
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| Description: | Woman standing in a rowboat near shore, testing the water with an oar. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View from river of Dell Creek bridge with bluff and birch trees on the left. |
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| Description: | Group of people with an iceboat on a frozen lake (possibly Lake Michigan). |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with four women, a man and a child, all well-dressed, posing on the ice wearing ice skates. Other skaters are behind them. Caption reads: "Syl... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | A man and woman sitting on a pier on a lake putting on water skis. A boat is next to the pier. |
| Date: | 06 12 1955 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman water ski behind a power boat on a Lake Mendota with downtown Madison skyline in the background. |
| Date: | 02 23 1953 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin crew rowing down the Yahara River. View looking south toward railroad bridge in the 100 block of North Thornton Avenue. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas... |
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