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Woman with Canoe Paddle

Date: 1910
Description: Woman standing on riverbank with canoe paddle and boat moored at tree.
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Fisherman with Fish

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Description: A fisherman sitting in a boat is holding a cigar and posing with lake trout.
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Carl H. Bernard

Date: 05 06 1948
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...
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J. Robert Taylor and Son

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Description: J. Robert Taylor standing on a lake pier with either his son Frederick or Robert. Both of them are wearing swimming suits, and a boat is underneath the pie...
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Two girls at Brownie Day Camp at Burrows Park. Standing near a boat on the shore of Lake Mendota is Shelia Sullivan, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Su...
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Couple and Doll in a Boat

Date: 1925
Description: View from shoreline of young couple posing together in a boat by a pier. A doll is sitting on the bow of the boat. The far shoreline of the lake is in the ...
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Bathing Beauties and Max

Date: 06 1927
Description: Two young women in bathing suits pose on a pier. Max the dog sits in a small wood boat sitting on the pier. The far shoreline can be seen in the background...
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Inland Lakes Regatta on Lake Mendota

Date: 07 05 1950
Description: Two Madison teenagers, Judith Rendall and Gina Johnson, standing on board Judy's Class C sailboat "Nite-Hawk."
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Inland Lakes Regatta on Lake Mendota

Date: 08 05 1950
Description: Morgan E. Manchester, Maple Bluff, commodore of the Mendota Yacht Club and general chairman of the Inland Lakes Regatta, posing with his son aboard the fam...
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Albert Hansen

Date: 1931
Description: Albert Hansen by Lake Superior at Manitoulin Island.
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Rowboating

Date: 1950
Description: Richard Quinney and Peggy (?) pose for a snapshot in a rowboat on a lake.
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Sigurd and Elizabeth Olson

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Description: Informal portrait of Sigurd and Elizabeth Olson standing on a pier.
Postcard

Woman on High Rock

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Description: A woman in an Indian dress and headband sits at High Rock in the Upper Dells looking over the Wisconsin River at a tour boat.
Photograph

Mendota Yacht Club Hosts Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta

Date: 07 31 1954
Description: The 53rd annual Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta hosted by the Mendota Yacht Club is held in Madison on August 22, 1954. Pictured are Lucien Hanks,...
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Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta

Date: 07 31 1954
Description: John E. Spohn (left) is in charge of docks and landings, and Philip Q. Sawin (right) is chairman of grounds for the 53rd annual regatta of the Inland Lake ...
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Dean John Bowers

Date: 06 17 1956
Description: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's minister of welfare and health, is shown in a speedboat on Lake Mendota with Dean John Z. Bowers, of the University of Wiscon...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

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Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 19-32

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Description: Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk,
unkind to wake the dreamer
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

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Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

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Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all

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