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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: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women on the shore of an unidentified lake. Nearby, a second group of children, men, and women are pushing off from the shoreline in row b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of five people in a rowboat on Abels' Lake. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kern and Jessie rowing boats on unidentified lake. The far shoreline can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Young girl in foreground, wading in Fox River. Woman standing in a rowboat, pulled to shore, holding a fishing pole and fish. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three men in a covered boat on an International Harvester logging(?) canal surrounded by trees on either side. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
| Date: | 08 29 1922 |
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| Description: | Men and boys are on a hand-pump rail cart on a Michigan Island beach, Lake Superior. A young girl is walking on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Group of eight adults getting in or out of a boat on an Apostle Island beach. |
| 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 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people on boat "Zenya" at Hermit Island boat landing. L. to r. in back: Captain Angus; Mrs. Stickae; Florence Baker; Mrs. Baker; Elizabeth Abern... |
| Date: | 07 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Individuals boating in the Kosciusko Park lagoon, with onlookers sitting on the bank. Caption on glass plate reads: "Boating, Kosciusko Park". |
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| Description: | Group having a picnic on the shore of an Apostle Island. There is a large sailboat behind the group. |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat with two women along the shoreline of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 08 01 1914 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Yacht Club, located at the foot of E. Layfayette Street on Lake Michigan. Numerous sailboats are in the harbor, and individuals are on the pier. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Boathouse, dock and boat at Devils Island Light Station. Bill Baker, Elsie Tough, and Captain Angus. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Ladies on the "Gee Whiz" using umbrellas as sun protection. |
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