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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Photograph

Photographer's Son in Boat

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Description: Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman".
Photograph

Carl A. Peterson Fishing

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Description: View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home.
Photograph

Sugar Bowl

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Description: Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos...
Photograph

Lunch Crowd at Grand Regatta

Date: 1877
Description: "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A crowd sits on the ground about to commence lunch at Devil's Lake.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fishing with Turtle

Date: 1919
Description: Photomontage of a fisherman in a rowboat catching a giant turtle. The male companion of the fisherman has fallen in and lost his hat amidst the excitement....
Photograph

Launch Towing Barge-Load of Pilings to Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 03 1911
Description: A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th...
Photograph

Gravel at Prairie du Sac Power Dam

Date: 10 07 1911
Description: Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore.
Photograph

Motorboat on Milwaukee River

Date: 1914
Description: View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building...
Photograph

Fire Boats Near Walkway

Date: 1897
Description: Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out...
Photograph

Group with Bicycles and Oars

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Description: A group of seventeen young people of varying ages posing outside against a hill with bicycles and a set of rowing oars.
Photograph

Confiscated Sturgeon

Date: 1942
Description: Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines.
Photograph

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi...
Photograph

Automobile Near Water

Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water.
Photograph

Istanbul Harbor

Date: 1951
Description: Elevated view of pedestrians at the harbor at Istanbul, Turkey.
Photograph

Men Driving near Bayou

Date: 1915
Description: Three men driving in an automobile past a pond or bayou. There appear to be two small boats on the shoreline, and trees are rising out of the water in the ...
Photograph

Gazing at Lyndale Bay

Date: 1938
Description: Two men standing near cabins looking at Upper Eau Claire Lake.
Photograph

Meskan's on East Lake

Date: 1935
Description: View from water of a boy sitting on the back of a wooden boat with his feet on a pier. He is holding a dog which is standing on the dock. There is a small ...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Irrigation

Date: 1967
Description: Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ...

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