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| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes. |
| 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: | 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two preliminary watercolors of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel displays the history of Wisconsin ex... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. This panel displays the history of Wisconsin exploration, mos... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Lacking other equipment on the beach, native canoes were pressed into service to transfer equipment to larger boats. |
| Date: | 06 29 1949 |
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| Description: | A truckload of canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue, with eight employees standing in front. In the background is the Ben Franklin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson duck hunting from a canoe. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
| Date: | 08 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson during the American Forest Trail ride at Brent Lake in Quetico Provincial Park. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a missionary priest wearing a robe standing in the fore of a canoe as it comes ashore paddled by a person in the aft. An Indian on ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A patrol from the 14th Infantry canoeing in the rain in Panama. Three men in fatigues holding sub-machine guns are sitting in a canoe. |
| Date: | 06 26 1940 |
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| Description: | Page from the Neighborhood House log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by the settlement house, with images of girls on their bikes and resting on a d... |
| Date: | 11 14 1942 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map illustrates Potawatomi Indian legends from the region of Lower Phantom Lake, labeled Howitt Lake on the map, Phantom Lake, and Mukwonag... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map shows a canoe route from Madison to Milwaukee, with total mileage of 237 miles. Includes proposed 1837 route of Milwaukee-Rock River Canal approv... |
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