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Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
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Description: | Lawrence Martin and Will Hotchkiss fishing off a pier early in the morning. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Man and boy in silhouette ice fishing on Lake Winnebago. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of La Pointe and the shoreline from the Old Mission dock. Two boys and two men stand along the shoreline. The white building with the dark ro... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
Date: | 06 1837 |
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Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
Date: | 1835 |
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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 (... |
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Description: | Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman". |
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Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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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. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse. |
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Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
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