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Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn

Date: 1953
Description: Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
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West Side Garden Club

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Christina Dana, president-elect of the West Side Garden Club, and Doris Mohs, the retiring president, standing among the Aboretum crab apple blossoms. The ...
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer...
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came...
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Sunlight at The University of Wisconsin Arboretum Gathering of Friends

Date: 05 28 1964
Description: Sunlight spotlights a prairie tract where more than 100 members of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum picnicked and toured the area in gr...
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At the Arboretum

Date: 11 2013
Description: View towards a woman standing near a fallen tree with her back to the viewer. She is wearing a light jacket and jeans. There is a partially fallen tree and...
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Mother and Daughter in the Arboretum

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Description: A mother and her daughter spend a day reading and relaxing in the U.W. Arboretum Longenecker Horticultural Gardens under a flowering tree.
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Bird and Thistle at the Arboretum

Date: 10 10 2014
Description: View of a sign with a photograph of an American Goldfinch on a thistle posted on the side of a paved path lined with trees and plants. Just beyond the sign...
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Proposed U.W. Building in Bascom Woods

Date: 01 16 1959
Description: Several people looking at a topographical model of Bascom Woods and Muir Knoll by the surrounding buildings between Elizabeth Waters Hall, the Carillon Tow...
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Lilacs Blooming in the U.W. Arboretum

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Dan Rupnow sniffing the lilac blossoms in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

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