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| Date: | 07 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water of a steamboat touring Lake Monona in Madison. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two steamboats docked at Lake Monona. Boat in foreground is identified as "Lake Side". A third boat is in the background. |
| Date: | 05 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Captain Harvey Black, veteran chief lifeguard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison lifeguards, standing in his boat, "Isabel II". |
| Date: | 08 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Mendota Yacht Club members taking down the sail from their boat, "The Freckles," on the pier behind the James Payton house, 409 N. Blair Street. Left to ri... |
| Date: | 08 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Mendota Yacht Club members, sitting on the pier behind the James Payton house, 409 N. Blair Street. Left to right: Ann Dre Schlimgen, James Payton, Parnee... |
| Date: | 08 09 1947 |
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| Description: | A few of the children of Mendota Yacht Club members, seated on the terrace at the James Payton house, 409 N. Blair Street. Left to right: Mark Nesbit, Jimm... |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin varsity crew on Lake Mendota in its new pressed plywood racing shell, the Mendota, which was christened just before this... |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new racing shell, the Mendota, receives the champagne bottle from sponsor Mrs. Harry (Mary) Stuhldreher in the christening ceremony on t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | View of Madison from across Lake Monona, with two people sitting on a pier in the foreground on the right. A boat is near the pier on the left. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Monoa towards Madison from the Old Assembly Grounds. Trees frame the view of the lake, and boaters are in the distance on the right. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View along the steep shoreline of possibly Lake Mendota. In the foreground there is a veranda looking over the lake with various docks and boats in the bac... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Children fishing and playing in the water at Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A boat full of men and women is entering the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Carl H. Bernard, operator of the University Boathouse on Lake Mendota, standing on a pier. Carl is the grandson of Charles Bernard Sr., who started the Ber... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | View from water towards shoreline of the University of Wisconsin and Cornell University crew teams nearing the finish line. The Cornell team, nearest to th... |
| Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A float of a Viking ship is being pulled by a vehicle decorated as a fish, "the Spirit of Sca... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A gondola float with a band playing Italian music is coming down the street. |
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