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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
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The Juniata Pushing a Raft of Lumber

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Description: View from raft towards the sternwheel rafter, Juniata, pushing a raft of lumber. The crew is posing on deck. The boat was later named the Red Win...
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Home on Observatory Hill

Date: 1899
Description: View of home atop of Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Calm Crawfish River

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Description: View from shoreline across Crawfish River, with foliage and a barbed wire fence in the foreground.
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Devil's Doorway

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Description: View of the rock formation on a cliff overlooking the lake. A little girl stands in the doorway.
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Picnic Point from University Drive

Date: 1887
Description: Picnic Point from University Drive.
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Shacks along Lake Monona

Date: 1906
Description: Shacks at the foot of North Main Street along Lake Monona near what later became Brittingham Park.
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Foot of West Main Street

Date: 1906
Description: Area at the foot of West Main Street, which is now Brittingham Park. Weatherworn buildings are on the right.
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Milibrook Fox Hunt

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Description: View of men on horseback and dogs preparing for a fox hunt.
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California Poppy Field

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Description: A worker is shown in a California poppy field.
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The Mound, River Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: A view of the "Mound."
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Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
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Thordarson Estate

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Description: View across lawn or field of numerous buildings on Chester Thordarson's estate. There are greenhouses on the left.
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Aurora Country Club Groundskeeping

Date: 09 12 1924
Description: Man using a Farmall Fairway tractor with a mower to tend the golf course of the Aurora Country Club.
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View from Picnic Point

Date: 1900
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...
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View from Bascom Hill Looking East

Date: 1903
Description: View of downtown Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol building from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Bascom Hill Looking East

Date: 1900
Description: View looking east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Lake La Belle

Date: 1870
Description: View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left.
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Picnic Point

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill with flowers and trees in "the daisy field" on the Lake Mendota shoreline between Raymer’s Cove and Wally Bauman Woods in the current Lakesh...
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View Along East Bank of Galena River

Date: 04 05 1852
Description: Whole plate daguerreotype of view along the east bank of the Galena River (also known as the Fevre River). From a full plate daguerreotype by Alexander Hes...

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