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Canal at Portage

Date: 1910
Description: View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal.
Photograph

Shore View of Mission Dock

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of La Pointe and the shoreline from the Old Mission dock. Two boys and two men stand along the shoreline. The white building with the dark ro...
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Yahara River below Williamson Street

Date: 1908
Description: A view of the Yahara River below Williamson Street.
Poster

International Travelall Advertising Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Advertising poster for the International Travelall truck. Features a color photograph of two people in a Travelall pulling two campers and a boat. Includes...
Photograph

Shore Scene at Washington Island

Date: 08 24 1964
Description: Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water.
Photograph

Blackhawk Island

Date: 
Description: Looking upstream towards Blackhawk Island from opposite Ravine Bridge. There is a rowboat at the rocky shoreline.
Photograph

Curtiss Hydroaeroplane

Date: 1912
Description: A Curtiss hydroaeroplane tied down prior to a test flight over San Diego Bay. Two unidentified pilots rest on the dock in the shade of its wing.
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Children with Rowboat

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Description: Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline.
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Ceylon Building on Lake Geneva

Date: 1893
Description: The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas...
Photograph

Boat on Suamico River

Date: 1963
Description: View from shoreline of a boat on Suamico River.
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H.H. Bennett in Boat

Date: 
Description: Henry Hamilton Bennett poling his boat close along a rock formation in the Wisconsin Dells.
Photograph

Mrs. Kern and Jessie Rowing Duck-Hunting Boats on Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Mrs. Kern and Jessie rowing boats on unidentified lake. The far shoreline can be seen in the background.
Photograph

Man in Reeds

Date: 
Description: At Big Muskegan Wind. In a marsh part of a lake, a man in waders is bent over among the reeds. In the background are three people in a boat, with one perso...
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Memorial Union Terrace

Date: 1948
Description: View towards Lake Mendota from the Memorial Union terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Merchant Boat on Ohio River

Date: 05 13 1894
Description: View from shoreline of merchant boat, with the words Glass City on the side, floating down the Ohio River.
Photograph

View of University Bay and the Boathouse

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of Lake Mendota for the end of Park Street, including the boathouse (backyard of Olin House located at 766 Langdon Street) on the Unive...
Photograph

P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
Photograph

Dells Composite [4 Images]

Date: 
Description: A composite of photographs from various places in the Wisconsin Dells. The picture along the left is of a rock formation high above two women in a canoe in...
Photograph

Dells Composite [5 Panels]

Date: 
Description: A composite of five photographs taken in and around the Wisconsin Dells, including a photograph of an excursion boat on the river, a canoe beached on the s...
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Wisconsin Dells, from Old Dell House

Date: 1894
Description: Panoramic view from shoreline of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells as seen from the "Old Dell House." A canoe is visible on the shore on the far r...

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