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Boat Livery at Lake Wingra

Date: 09 26 2014
Description: View across water towards canoes and kayaks stored on the sand, on docks, or on berths on the shoreline of Lake Wingra.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba...
Photograph

Tonyawatha Spring Hotel

Date: 08 30 1884
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...
Photograph

Canoe Instruction

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards Girl Scouts in five canoes setting out from shore on Rice Lake at Camp Hickory Hill. There is a temporary shade structure and woo...
Postcard

Edwards' Park Landing

Date: 1909
Description: View down a dock with two boats on either side. A man is standing on the one on the left. There is a boathouse on the lakeshore, with several canoes and ro...
Postcard

Lotus Bed in Lake Mendota

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Description: Colorized postcard view of a couple in a canoe floating through a lotus bed. Caption reads: :Lotus Bed in Lake Mendota, Madison, Wis."
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: Photograph of a woodcut of the Eben and Roseline Peck cabin. It was built by or for Roseline, the first white settler in Madison. The drawing was inspired ...
Photograph

Walter Dunn

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Description: Walter Dunn dressed as a trapper is giving a demonstration to onlookers.
Photograph

Ethnology Room

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Description: The ethnology room in the State Historical Society museum.
Postcard

River Scene

Date: 08 25 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "River Scene, Stoughton, Wis." Two women in a canoe on the Yahara River near wetlands foliage, with two people on the pedestrian bridg...

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