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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from boat towards the waterfront at Lake Geneva with the Whiting House Hotel on the left and the pier extending to the right. A large sidewheel steamb... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across water towards the starting line of a two-oared scull race on Geneva Lake. At the front of the line a judge wearing a dark jac... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View from water over boats towards the four-story wood frame Second Empire style Whiting House Hotel standing on the lake shore at Lake Geneva. Several set... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Tonyawatha House and several outbuildings on Lake Monona. There is a long dock extending into the lake from a boathouse on the... |
| Date: | 05 30 1885 |
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| Description: | The sailboat "Solid Comfort" in full sail, near the shoreline. There are four men standing on top of the cabin. Deckhands are at both ends of the boat. The... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline of a steamboat grounded near a wooden dock. An upside-down canoe or rowboat is propped on the dock. The far shoreline is in the back... |
| Date: | 04 17 1866 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamer "Scutanawbequon" being carried by a wagon to the lake for launching. This is probably a street on the Capitol Square. Many peo... |
| Date: | 04 17 1866 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Scutanawbequon," owned by Francis (Frank) Barnes, launched on April 17, 1866, with seven people aboard. "She was 50 feet lon... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View along Lake Mendota shoreline, west from Park Street on the University of Wisconsin campus. On the left are rowboats on the shoreline near boathouses. ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Caroline Mae Sherwood Turner, wife of Frederick Jackson Turner, with their children Dorothy Kinsley Turner, Jackson Allen Turner, and Mae Sherwood Turner a... |
| Date: | 08 30 1884 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Tonyawatha House. A man or woman is in a rowboat in the foreground, and a large group of people are on a pier near five or six... |
| Date: | 08 30 1884 |
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| Description: | View along the Lake Monona shoreline towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel. A crowd of people are standing on the pier with several sailboats. On the shore i... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Some of the Old-Timers on the Photo. Steamers: Petosky (on stocks), Muskegon, Corona, A.D. Hayward, City of St. Joe, Lotus, J.F. Dayan, Gra... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fishing village on Jones Island, Milwaukee. Several fishing boats are docked along the shoreline. Large piles of lumber are in the foregro... |
| Date: | 08 24 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of Holt family members and guests is arriving at the Island on Archibald Lake, with lumberjacks from Holt Lumber Company rowing the boats. The man ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a young man, possibly James McClure, Jr., rowing on Archibald Lake. A tree-lined shore is in the background. Caption reads: "A Great Hand at Ro... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A foursome is boating on Archibald Lake. William Leonard Burnap, standing up in the boat, is wringing water out of something with his hands. The man sittin... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jeannie Schauers is standing on wooden planks near a pier on the shoreline of Archibald Lake. A rowboat is pulled up on the shoreline on the left. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A young man with cap and light-colored tie is sitting in the stern of a sailboat with five young women. He has his arms around two of the women; two others... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
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