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| Description: | The tugboat Ashland with several passengers visible on deck. |
| Date: | 06 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer Orchestra, the "Piffles" Jaeger Band with instruments, on lake passenger boat. Band members and guests are: Left to right: Ruth Bourrette, Mrs.... |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Arthur Melster, President of Cambridge Foundation; K.K. Amundson. M.D. of Cambridge; and W.T. Webb of Evinrude Motors, look at the Lake Ripley Ole Evinrude... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Art Ensign (left) and Chuck Steele seated in the lifeguard tower at Madison's Lakefront Beach. The City of Madison has placed experienced lifeguards at 8 b... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view looking east along East Wilson Street with the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul East Madison railroad station, 501 East Wilson Street, on the right.... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of a group of excursion boats meeting at the pier. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
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| Description: | View toward shoreline with a covered pier and a pavilion on the end on the left. To the right of the pier are men and women in rowboats. A sign on a tree i... |
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| Description: | A band sits on the deck of Scott's Showboat, designed in 1932 by Ray Scott Sr., while floating near a dock on Lake Oquaga. The men are dressed in nautical ... |
| Date: | 06 12 1998 |
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| Description: | "Barth's Linden Inn is located on the West shore of Big Cedar Lake, between Slinger and West Bend on Hwy. 144." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view across water towards the Pheasant Inn on Lake Mason. Buildings are along the shoreline behind large trees. Two people are in a r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Melody Haven Tavern near Clam Lake. A man is standing next to a stone wall surrounding a parking lot. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
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| Description: | View of seven men wearing pants, boots, belts and long-sleeved button-up shirts holding a box and three stringers of fish they caught. The wooden boats in ... |
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| Description: | View looking north across the Highway 21 bridge at Necedah Lake. A man, likely a Resettlement Administration worker, poses in the grass in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View looking north across the Highway 21 bridge at Necedah Lake. A man, likely a Resettlement Administration worker, stands holding a pipe in the foregroun... |
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