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Spring Basin

Date: 11 26 1972
Description: Dry spring basin (Merrill Springs) at the end of Spring Court off Lake Mendota Drive.
Photograph

Merrill Springs

Date: 1910
Description: University of Wisconsin summer session students gather at Merrill Springs on Lake Mendota.
Postcard

Merrill Springs

Date: 
Description: Merrill Springs on Lake Mendota. Caption reads: "Madison Wis. The Old Merrill Spring."
Photograph

Spring on Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: View of a large spring on Lake Mendota, to the west of the University of Wisconsin. A man crouches at the stone wall surrounding the spring, and a small bu...
Photograph

Blue Spring

Date: 07 02 1925
Description: Charles E. Brown (pointing) and A.O. Barton, both of Madison, stand on a boardwalk at Blue Spring. The spring feeds the lake of the same name.
Photograph

Men at a Spring

Date: 1925
Description: Three unidentified men and a dog at a spring near the north shore of Lake Mendota. General Henry Dodge camped here in 1832, before the Black Hawk War.
Map or Atlas

Indian Legend Map of Lake Mendota

Date: 1941
Description: Hand-drawn, watercolor and ink, map of Lake Mendota. Locations and many small figures appear around the shore with explanations referring to Indian legends...
Map or Atlas

Map of Portion of Dane County Showing First and Second Lakes

Date: 
Description: This 19th century manuscript map shows First Lake, Second Lake, streams, and sections in the towns of Dunn and Pleasant Springs, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

State Park Devil's Lake Wisconsin : Course in Plane Table Surveying

Date: 1923
Description: This topographical map of Devil's Lake State Park, Sauk County, Wisconsin, is based on 1922-1923 surveys of the area by the University of Wisconsin Summer ...
Photograph

View of Tonyawatha House

Date: 1885
Description: View along shoreline towards Tonyawatha House and several outbuildings on Lake Monona. There is a long dock extending into the lake from a boathouse on the...
Photograph

Tonyawatha Spring Hotel

Date: 08 30 1884
Description: View along the Lake Monona shoreline towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel. A crowd of people are standing on the pier with several sailboats. On the shore i...

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