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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
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| Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake. |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a group of people in a large model launch with an American flag. Caption reads: "On Mendota Lake near University of Wisconsin-Madison Boat House." |
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| Description: | A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A simple map of the Mississippi Project. There are symbols at the bottom marking locations for: Voter Registration, Freedom School, Community Center and Pr... |
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