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Photograph

Counterbalance on a Sailboat

Date: 1959
Description: Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel.
Photograph

Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant

Date: 1959
Description: The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company.
Photograph

Elevated View of Lake Monona

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view looking east from shoreline of Lake Monona towards Monona shoreline. There is a road, railroad tracks, and a rocky beach area with parked au...
Photograph

Lake Monona

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view looking south over Lake Monona. Shoreline and automobiles in parking lot in lower right, next to a road. Railroad tracks cross the lake and b...
Photograph

Lake Monona

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of dirt parking lot between a road and the lake. Steam is rising from the lake, and the far shoreline can be seen in the distance.
Map or Atlas

Campus Map

Date: 1959
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Numbers in circles identify buildings across campus with the building index. Black arrows point out important infor...
Photograph

Aerial View of Lower Campus

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view over University Avenue of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Chadbourne Hall, built 1958-1959, is in the lower foreground, the Wisconsin H...
Postcard

Aerial View of Boulder Junction

Date: 1959
Description: Color postcard of an aerial view of town. There is a lake in the background in the upper left.
Map or Atlas

County Forestry Map

Date: 1959
Description: This map identifies public forest land and industrial forest land as of 1959 in Oneida County, Wisconsin, using a 1930 base map showing the township and ra...
Postcard

Birch Sign with Antlers at Bear Lake

Date: 1959
Description: Photographic postcard view of cabins by a lake. In the foreground is a birch sign with antlers that reads: "Tonto."
Map or Atlas

Lake Geneva Wisconsin and Big Foot Beach State Park, Wisconsin Conservation Department

Date: 1959
Description: This map of Lake Geneva has relief shown by contours and water depths shown by isolines. The map includes an index of schools, churches, public services, i...
Map or Atlas

Real Estate Map, Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1959
Description: This map includes directories, illustrations, and an inset location map and also covers Rock, Hog, Detroit and Plum islands.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol View of State Street

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of State Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Lake Mendota is on the far right.
Map or Atlas

Map of Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows public access sites, public beaches and parks, other public shorelines, boat liveries, public hunting and fishing grounds, railroads, roads,...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Road Map / Street Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1959
Description: This colored road map shows roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any road shown (expressways, St...
Postcard

Waterskiing on a Pretty Lake, Vacationland Scene

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view from hill of a waterskier and motorboat on Rock Lake.
Photograph

Brown Swiss Cows in Cow Pasture

Date: 1959
Description: Close-up of three Brown Swiss cows at the split-rail fence in the Forest Lodge pasture. Lake Namakagon is in the background.

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