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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Man and boy in silhouette ice fishing on Lake Winnebago. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes. |
| Date: | 08 10 1964 |
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| Description: | A rubber raft serves as the launching point for diving and other water play on a hot summer day. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a fisherman unloading gear from the rear of an International Scout II XL pickup near a mountain lake. |
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| Description: | Attorney Albert G. Zimmerman (with cigar) and an unidentified man, enjoying the Lake Mendota breezes while seated on a rustic bench behind Zimmerman's lake... |
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| Description: | Ethelwyn Farm (The Teachers' Country Club), on Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota water skiers, Joanna (Josie) Mayer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Mayer, (523 Farwell Drive), and Jimmy Schneiders, son of Dr. and Mrs. E... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota skin-divers, Dick Charmley and Gary Davies, shown with fish that they have harpooned. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | From the newspaper caption: Tony Bonovich's [dog,] "Nigger of Upham" won the Derby retriever trial Sunday [June 17, 1945] in Vilas Park. He is shown here w... |
| Date: | 07 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Sailing instructor at YMCA Camp Wakanda Harry Stuhldreher Jr. is shown steering a sail boat on Lake Mendota with (L to R) Timothy Rice, Dick Lower, and Ran... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Henry Vilas Park, with two bridges and Lake Wingra in the background. |
| Date: | 09 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette (Wisconsin) and Governor Henry Horner (Illinois) enjoy a laugh in the boat during a fishing trip. |
| 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: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A boy in bare feet and overalls fishes off a pier at Fox Lake. The lake and far shoreline are in the background. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children pose on a bluff above Lake Flora Dell. In the background are several cottages surrounded by trees near the shoreline of... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children swimming, playing, and relaxing at the beach at Devil's Lake State Park. Two long docks extend into the water and the scene is rep... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A girl climbing over the rocks at Devil's Lake State Park against a scenic view of the lake and surrounding areas. |
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| Description: | A vista of Devil's Lake from the high rock formations at Devil's Lake State Park. A girl is posed in the center on a rock with her back toward the camera, ... |
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| Description: | View from lake of the buildings of the Sunflower Cottage Resort. People are canoeing and boating in the lake in front of the resort, and a few people are s... |
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