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| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three sportsmen with shotguns and hunting dogs around an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody"). The photograph may have been staged for advertising ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Scout Leaders Club learning to build fires, making tin can stoves, and using outdoor equipment. Left to right are: Mrs. Eldred Tygum (Willn... |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Onlookers near a pond at the Retriever Dog Field Trials in Vilas Park. James Simpson, Jr., of Chicago, one of the judges, has his hand upraised to signal; ... |
| 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: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Two teenage skiers poised at the top of the hill at Blackhawk Ski Run. Hartman Axley is on the left and Bob Herman on the right. |
| Date: | 02 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Ice carving of the Olympic rings at the University of Wisconsin Hoofers Club Winter Carnival, with Bascom Hall and the Lincoln Monument in the background. ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Madison Figure Skating Club at Vilas Park. Pictured are Mrs. H.A. (Winifred) Balsley, vice-president (left), and Mrs. Alan (Jessie) Nels... |
| Date: | 02 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Junior members of the Madison Figure Skating Club at Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Ann Zander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Zander; Judy Hicks,... |
| Date: | 02 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Figure Skating Club at Vilas Park watching I.E. Karsten demonstrating his figure skating technique. Pictured left to right: Richard ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Two young charter members of the Madison Figure Skating Club at Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Karen Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nelson, and... |
| Date: | 07 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Four campers hike along a trail at Camp Wakanda, left to right: Raymond Nagel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nagel, 2810 Dahl Street, Carl Fosmark, son of Dr. ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1940 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. A crowd of children and adults is watching from a snowbank ... |
| Date: | 02 11 1941 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. The man is holding the woman almost parallel to the ice whi... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | The bathing beach and bath house at Copper Falls State Park. Two swimmers are sitting and standing on a dock with a platform. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl posed inside of the Elephant Cave in the east bluffs at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two boys and two girls swimming at the Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. One of the girls is diving off the dock that also has a platform. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson duck hunting from a canoe. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
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