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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 04 24 1899 |
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| Description: | Partial view of a boathouse at the foot of North Carroll Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built for the city of Madison. The University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings across Lake Mendota from Carroll Street. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red), a boathouse, an... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view from the capitol looking west up State Street toward the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Holy Redeemer Church, Holy Redeemer School, Red Gy... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Looking south from the capitol dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol, the view is of West Main Street bound by South Hamilton Street and Monona Avenue (now M... |
| Date: | 08 1894 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two people standing on Schuetzan Park pier. A sailboat is docked at the end of the pier and there is a steamboat on the water. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Observatory Hill, Observatory Hall, the Agriculture Campus and Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| 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: | 09 18 1892 |
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| Description: | Four men sit on the balcony of Rocky Roost, the vacation home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The men ar... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Attorney Albert G. Zimmerman took this photograph of Monona Avenue, with Lake Monona beyond, from the roof of the Madison Capitol about 1895. Across Main ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Field and trees and water are in the foreground. On the far shoreline are buildings in the town. |
| Date: | 03 15 1896 |
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| Description: | Winter view down Capitol Avenue, possibly in Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The First Baptist Church, pictured in the lower center area of the photograph, organized in 1847 and erected in 1854. St. Raphael's Cathedral in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A city view of Madison across the lake from the old Assembly Grounds. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ... |
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