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Iceboats on Lake Mendota

Date: 1896
Description: A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota.
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Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race

Date: 01 20 1950
Description: Two Madison iceboat racers standing by their iceboat during the Hearst Trophy Race on Lake Monona. At left is Carl Bernard, skipper, with crewman, Norm Bra...
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Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race

Date: 01 20 1950
Description: Two iceboat racers from Oshkosh, Chuck Nevitt and Jimmy Payton, standing by their iceboat during the Hearst Trophy Race on Lake Monona.
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Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race

Date: 01 20 1950
Description: Iceboats line up on Lake Monona for the Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race. Shown are Madison iceboats "Fritz" and "Mary B," and Oshkosh iceboats "Penguin" and "Fl...
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Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race

Date: 01 20 1950
Description: Two iceboaters race their iceboat during the Hearst Trophy Iceboat Race on Lake Monona. Bill Mattison is the man on the right.
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Northwestern Ice Yachting Association Ice Regatta

Date: 01 18 1952
Description: Close-up of five-year-old William (Spike) Boston in his iceboat on Lake Monona. He was the youngest skipper at the Northwestern Yachting Association ice re...
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Iceboat Owners Prepare for Hearst Trophy Challenge

Date: 01 29 1953
Description: Examining the sails of the iceboat the "Mary B" are Jim Lunder, at left, and Mary Ann Bernard, center, and Carl Bernard, right. Mr. Lunder is skipper and p...
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Iceboats

Date: 1900
Description: Forest Middleton poses with his sled as his father, William, works with an iceboat behind him on frozen Lake Monona. There are other iceboats and boathouse...
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Two men holding large fish pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Another man stands behind them. There is man on an iceboat in the left backgr...
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Iceboat on the Mississippi River

Date: 1905
Description: The iceboat was built by the Ranke boys. There are about forty-nine people posing in front of the boat. Almost everyone is wearing ice skates. Names: Fred ...
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Four Lakes Ice Yacht Races

Date: 12 31 1960
Description: Bloop Polglase and John L. Bluel make last-minute checks on their iceboat prior to the Four Lakes Club races on Lake Monona.
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Iceboating

Date: 03 1916
Description: Kurt Ruedebusch and Joe Mills pose in Ernst Schmidt's iceboat on frozen Lake Mendota. Ernst Schmidt was an undergraduate student at the University of Wisco...
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Irving Brown in an Ice Boat

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Description: View across ice towards a man identified as Irving Brown sitting in an ice boat on a lake. Large houses are in the background along the shoreline.
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Iceboats on Lake

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Description: View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails.
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Gaff Rigged, Madison Style Iceboat

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Description: View across ice towards two people in an iceboat on Lake Mendota.
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Aero-Sled Iceboat on Lake Monona

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Description: A man dressed in winter clothes is standing behind an Aero-Sled iceboat, which has a motor and a propeller on the back. The boat is near the Lake Monona sh...
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International Skeeter Association Ice Boat Regatta

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Dave Roston (Madison) skippers "Flying Trump", a Skeeter ice boat (right) around a marker in the International Skeeter Association regatta on Lake Mendota....
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Dave Roston

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Dave Roston, ice-boat skipper, who won Saturday morning's race but finished eighth in the afternoon in the International Skeeter Association re...
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Bill Perrigo

Date: 03 15 1958
Description: Portrait of Bill Perrigo, ice-boat skipper from Pewaukee, who piloted his "Thunder Jet" ice boat to a second place finish in the morning race, and won the ...
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Ice Boating

Date: 1906
Description: A man is bending forward near the mast of an iceboat as another man, wearing goggles, is standing to the left. There is a second iceboat on the right. A sm...

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