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| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
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| Description: | A group of Maine commercial fishermen having lunch on a dock. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." Spectators sit on the railroad bed at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 04 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Six sorority girls in a row boat, at the Alpha Phi party on the University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Date: | 06 10 1947 |
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| Description: | George P. Steinmetz, Sr., and his son, George Steinmetz, Jr., 2134 Fox Avenue, shown with the Donegal Trophy for winning the Mendota Yacht Club Memorial Da... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing on board a passenger ferry bound for a New Year's trip to Ashland. |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new racing shell, the Mendota, receives the champagne bottle from sponsor Mrs. Harry (Mary) Stuhldreher in the christening ceremony on t... |
| Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A float of a Viking ship is being pulled by a vehicle decorated as a fish, "the Spirit of Sca... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A gondola float with a band playing Italian music is coming down the street. |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered around an open door on a boat from which several men are reaching out and shaking hands with individuals in the crowd. |
| Date: | 05 17 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people gather on the banks of a river. Behind them, a band plays on a boat in the river. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | CBS journalist Cecil Brown, who was then reporting from Rome, Italy, is seen here in a Venetian gondola with Martha, his new bride, during their honeymoon. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A stereograph showing spectators gathered behind the starter's cannon on Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card made of four pieces. The main piece is of a large shell boat pulled by two swans on a pond filled with water lilies. A cutout of a lar... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
| Date: | 07 13 1871 |
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| Description: | Menu printed on taupe silk for a banquet given to the Northwestern Amateur Boating Association by the Milwaukee Boat Club at Newhall House. At the top is a... |
| Date: | 06 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a menu from a breakfast given by the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association in honor of visiting members of the General Federation of Women... |
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