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Lake Monona

Date: 1894
Description: Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background.
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Iceboating at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 09 1878
Description: Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden...
Painting

Sunrise on Lake Monona

Date: 1884
Description: Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance.
Photograph

Ice Fishing

Date: 01 2014
Description: View from shoreline on a sunny day of snow-covered, frozen Monona Bay. People in the distance are standing or sitting near ice fishing holes and ice fishin...
Photograph

Bernie's Beach on Monona Bay

Date: 06 16 2015
Description: Children and adults at a small, sandy beach on the bay. Two woman are watching over the children as they play in the water or on the beach. The skyline of ...
Postcard

View of Madison from Assembly Grounds

Date: 1910
Description: View from shoreline towards the Madison skyline from across Lake Monona. Landmarks include a church, the Park Hotel, Madison City Hall, the old Capitol and...
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Lake Mendota from Tenney Park

Date: 1902
Description: A view across Lake Mendota from Tenney Park. A group of four children are on the near shoreline. A group of adults are standing and sitting in the midgroun...
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Thunder Jet Ice Boat

Date: 01 23 1955
Description: The ice boat, "Thunder Jet," on a frozen Lake Monona. One of the two men aboard is probably the pilot, Bill "Curley" Perrigo, sitting at the helm or by the...

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