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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 03 09 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of the skating pond at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Town and business district, showing the early covered bridge across from the tail race of the powerhouse, with logs overflowing the river into yards, proba... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Logs piled on the shore of town, possibly due to Ice Gorge of 1876. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men and a dog standing on ice floes and looking over logs on an icy river. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from Lake Mendota of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is behind the boathouse. The ground is... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from frozen Lake Mendota of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is behind the boathouse. Two ice... |
| Date: | 04 1896 |
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| Description: | View from Chi Psi porch on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is stretching towards the right in the far background. There appears to... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl... |
| Date: | 03 08 1896 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near a large iceboat owned by Dutton and Wheeler on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View in winter from Lake Mendota of skaters near shoreline of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory building... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Men ice skating on Lake Monona, with two young boys. Other skaters are behind them, and the far shoreline is in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing on a log among a large pile of logs spread out on the snow-covered ice of a lake. He is leaning on the handle of what may be a cant ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, the Lady Franklin operating on a frozen river. Male passengers and crew members are standing on t... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, Lady Franklin being pulled from water onto ice using its anchor. The vessel was built, but never ... |
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