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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Brick house at 640 North Frances Street, erected in 1906 for the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from Capitol dome east to Third Lake Ridge District. Power plant is visible at center. Lake Monona is on the right. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A view of the shore, looking southeast from Lake Mendota. At left is the Thomas E. Brittingham residence and boathouse, 640 North Henry Street; center is ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A view of the shore, looking southeast from Lake Mendota. At left is the Thomas E. Brittingham residence and boathouse, 640 North Henry Street; center is ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Ladies on the "Gee Whiz" using umbrellas as sun protection. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women standing on Basswood Island Dock. Bill Baker, Elizabeth Hull, Florence Baker, Dorothy Stickney Ross, Louise Baker, Hamilton N. Ross ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students play on a canoe in Lake Mendota near the campus. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students stand on a Lake Mendota pier watching others swim. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | From Government Pier, looking at downtown Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Sky Line from Government Pier, Milwaukee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View looking across the river east into Black River Falls during the flood, showing the elevated level of the river and buildings falling into the water. C... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the Buffalo in Vladivostok harbor, Russia. The ship was transporting members of the Root Commission. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the pier landing as seen from the tourist camp site in Devil's Lake State Park. People are strolling on the dock, a boat is docked, w... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three women sit in the back of a Hudson Touring car, while a fourth woman stands behind the car on the side rail. All four women wear scarves over their ha... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement featuring a painting by artist Henry Mosler, dated 1915, titled "The Stars and Stripes Forever." In the painting a young man dressed in cut-o... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View of sandstone cliffs on the shore of Green Lake. Caption reads: "Wave-worn Rocks at Sandstone, Green Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across water towards an unidentified man wearing a cap sitting on the deck of a sailboat, the Vidette at the pier of Villa Henrietta, the Brumd... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Robert Thurston is canoeing on Archibald Lake amidst some shoreline grasses. The Ark cottage on the Island is in the background on the right. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking across the eastern half of Archibald Lake. In the distance is the narrow passageway connecting the east and west sides of the lake. ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Municipal Bathing Beach. Watertown, Wis." Slightly elevated view of a bathing beach on the Rock River. Many swimmers are in the water... |
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