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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Idora," owned by Charles Russell, docked at the Mission 'stub dock' on Madeline Island. A group of people are on boar... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a driver talking with a man in front of a resort building with a number of wagons and canoes in background. A 1972 Internat... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells from underneath an overhanging rocky outcropping. A canoe is beached on the far left. The word... |
| Date: | 02 04 1945 |
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| Description: | The mural depicts a trading station on the borders of a lake, the Whites and Indians are bargaining for furs, and the canoe is the means of transportation.... |
| Date: | 07 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Canoers paddle by to observe Don Krueger standing in the bow of the burned-out "Baby Gar Wood" speedboat after six University of Wisconsin women students w... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View of Picnic Point across University Bay on Lake Mendota. There is a willow tree in the foreground. People are in a canoe out on the water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of pasture land, with a bit of the Lake Koshkonong in the foreground, a wooden dock that is little more than planks, and several kayaks docked. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men unloading trucks and equipment from a ship shortly after arrival in the African Congo. The equipment was used by Commander Atillio Gat... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a canoe on the St. Croix River with wooded areas on both sides within the Interstate State Park. Established in 1900, Interstate Park was... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed Julia and Julius Jacobson looking at Indian artifacts at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum during their wedding trip to Madison... |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Man loading a canoe onto a Berg's cartop carrier. |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | A truckload of twenty-eight aluminum canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue. They were transported from Long Island, New York. The B... |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Al and Neva Reque and six of their salesmen standing in front of a load of new aluminum canoes, from Long Island, New York, at Madison Marine Service, 2102... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man leads two horses pulling a rice(?) binder through water while two others in a nearby canoe look on. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Lacking other equipment on the beach, native canoes were pressed into service to transfer equipment to larger boats. |
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