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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cavalry on a barge are going from or returning to Bear Island at the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. There are buildings along the fa... |
| Date: | 05 24 1896 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his friend Robert Lamp. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water of boats docked near houses on Jones Island. To the right two flags are strung up flagpoles near a building with a covered porch, perhaps a... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground. Plate 56 |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two men and two women visit sit on a small, rocky island or natural bridge near water. Plants and trees are on shoreline behind them. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | View down Rock River towards a covered bridge near another bridge, with factories and the city in the background. |
| Date: | 01 07 1894 |
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| Description: | Winter view of early buildings on Rocky Roost, which was west of Governor's Island. There is snow on the roofs, on the rocks and on the shore of Lake Mendo... |
| Date: | 08 24 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of Holt family members and guests is arriving at the Island on Archibald Lake, with lumberjacks from Holt Lumber Company rowing the boats. The man ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Annie McClure is holding Jeannette Holt while looking at a bird's nest in a tree. Archibald Lake is in the background. Caption reads: "A Birds Nest — Annie... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Wallace Rumsey is building a wooden seat from a fallen log at Lookout Point on the Island at Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "Building the seat on the point... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jeannie Schauers is standing on wooden planks near a pier on the shoreline of Archibald Lake. A rowboat is pulled up on the shoreline on the left. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View across the lagoon to the Japanese Pavilion or Ho-o-den Palace on the Wooded Island at the World's Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Pine Lake and the George Brumder summer house, taken from an observation tower built on a hill on the Brumder property. Many young tree... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Circular-framed view across a body of water. Two wood pilings are in the right foreground, and a boat is out on the water. Hills are along the far shorelin... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a... |
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