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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of La Pointe and the shoreline from the Old Mission dock. Two boys and two men stand along the shoreline. The white building with the dark ro... |
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| Description: | Six members of the Dorwin family water ski behind a motorboat. |
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| Description: | A father and young child are wading in a river. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline looking towards the city of Madison from across Lake Monona. Several people are in a rowboat on the lake. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis.... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones and his mother, Georgia Lloyd Jones, look at an iceboat on frozen Lake Monona. Houses along the north shore are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A woman pulls Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones on a sled across the ice on Lake Monona. Two other women stand on either side, and houses on the shoreline are in ... |
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| Description: | Dr. Reginald Jackson, Sr., and his son Reginald Jr., in the family sailboat. Because the family's cottage was located near Picnic Point, the photograph wa... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Two men are in the foreground on a shoreline, one standing in a boat. In the background on the other shoreline are adults and children sitting in the gras... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The sun is setting in the distance with three small boats docked at the pier. |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | View from beach of people swimming. Some are standing in the sand, and some are on the diving pier out in the water. On the left is part of a water slide. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
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| Description: | View of the Gasconade River and shore. A party of people are gathered near the water and a small rowboat with an American flag in it is pulled up alongside... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people sitting in a boat and and also standing on the shore of City Lake, with a view of the vast landscape in the distance. Caption reads... |
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| Description: | Dousman family members gathered around boat, Nina S. Dousman, about to be launched. Virginia Dousman, first on the left side. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamship "Cape Girardeau" in the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau. Many passengers are on board the ship as it prepares to... |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat "Senator Cordill" in the Mississippi River near Port Gibson. The boat is carrying an excursion party, and some of the passengers are ... |
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| Description: | View of the ferryboat "Middlesex" docked in the Connecticut River. Two men and three boys stand on the boat, and another man are on shore. "Middlesex" is p... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a ferry boat near a landing. "Gen. Spencer" is painted on the side of the ferry, which is transporting a cart, two children and a man. Sev... |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Olson, her sons, and another boy, in canoes owned by the Border Lakes Wilderness Outfitting Company. This photograph was probably taken for publi... |
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| Description: | View of a painting entitled, "Pilgrims and Indian Meeting." The piece features pilgrims arriving on the shore and encountering a Native American. |
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