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| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A view of Lake Monona from the Capitol building, looking down King Street. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Caption on reverse side of stereograph reads, "Governmental buildings, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and Hospital over Lake Mendota-looking from Capitol ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from across railroad tracks. Resort is on the water's edge, with a small inlet on the right. Land is mostly sand, though a small part on the left ha... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Statue of Leif Ericson is to the right of center in the foreground, with the figure facing the city. On the left is a hill with paths, a train station, ra... |
| 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: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large, white brick building is in the middle center, surrounded by trees. A smaller white building is in the right background. In front of the building... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Mansions and churches are along the road, and Lake Mendota and Picnic Point ar... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is standing next to a mower pulled by two oxen in a field next to a lake. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse on shoreline of Lake Mendota. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is behind the boathouse, and the Science Ha... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) on Langdon Street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A boathouse is behind the Armory on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of side of boathouse on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| 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: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of Picnic Point stretching out into Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The peninsula juts into Lake Mendota. The far shoreline can be seen in the distance. |
| Date: | 11 24 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the top of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall) of Picnic Point on Lake Mendota from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, which is located on a hill near Lake Mendota. A winding drive leads up to the hous... |
| 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... |
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