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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed young couples sit in the foreground. In the background is a picket fence running along a busy road with horse and buggy traffic. Further on is... |
| Date: | 06 1877 |
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| Description: | A huge crowd, mostly men, has gathered on the bank of Devil's Lake to witness the firing of a cannon. The occasion is the Grand Regatta held June 21-22, 18... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Women in hats in foreground, with railroad tracks below and sign that says, "Look out for the cars," and "While the bell rings the whistle blows." Very lik... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A stereograph showing spectators gathered behind the starter's cannon on Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | From the newspaper caption: Tony Bonovich's [dog,] "Nigger of Upham" won the Derby retriever trial Sunday [June 17, 1945] in Vilas Park. He is shown here w... |
| Date: | 06 10 1947 |
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| Description: | George P. Steinmetz, Sr., and his son, George Steinmetz, Jr., 2134 Fox Avenue, shown with the Donegal Trophy for winning the Mendota Yacht Club Memorial Da... |
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| Description: | Rowboat race with two boats about to go under a bridge. Both of the boats have numbers on the back. Onlookers are standing on the bridge watching the parti... |
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| Description: | Several views of the University of Wisconsin-Madison tub race. Several men race in wooden tubs while others watch from boats or a dock. |
| Date: | 01 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the boys' and girls' 1951 Madison speed skating champions in the midget, cub, junior, intermediate, and senior divisions. |
| Date: | 01 18 1952 |
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| Description: | The Madison crew sits on their iceboat, the "Mary B," that raced in the Northwestern Ice Yachting Association ice regatta on Lake Monona. From left to righ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Six new records were established in the Madison speed skating finals. Pictured left to right are skaters who led their divisions in the annual city champio... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A stereograph showing spectators gathered behind the starter's cannon on Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 02 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Renegade III Class E iceboat with skipper and iceboat designer Elmer Millenbach in the cockpit. Other iceboats and the north shore of Lake Monona, includi... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men in a log rolling contest standing on a log with the markings "IV" in the water. One man has an umbrella and the other has a cane and hat on. Behind... |
| Date: | 12 1994 |
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| Description: | "When the Theresa Community Development Corporation had a naming contest for this park, Janet Schuster Checolinski was the winner, with 'Rivers Edge Park.'... |
| Date: | 01 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 1958 city speed skating champions who won their races in the finals at Vilas Park. |
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| Description: | The measure of solitude fades in the ripples and there are more prizes than there are fish |
| Date: | 09 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Ted Wade of West Chicago, Illinois, gives a drink to a St. Bernard dog during the all-breed obedience trials sponsored by the Lakeland Dog Training Club of... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of large crowd of boys and girls fishing along the shoreline with bamboo poles at a lake. Very likely a sponsored "fishing contest." There are a few p... |
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