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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Shows potential fishing areas by species and season, as well as sand and rock bars, weed beds, public facilities, points of interest, and selected business... |
| Date: | 01 05 1959 |
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| Description: | "Bundle up Tight" is the theme of this tobogganing group as they don winter clothing in preparation for outdoor activities. Shown from left to right are Ma... |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of 23 children and teen city speed skating champions for 1959. |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with brothers Greg and Mark Hennen of 5709 Midmoor Road standing in their snow fort and holding snowballs at the ready the day following a fiv... |
| Date: | 06 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Six Madison area teenage members of the Youth Summer Theater rehearse a scene before 30 performances of "The Magic Shoes." The plays were performed at park... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map of Madison is looking north across Lake Monona. The map features two women and two men on a lookout on top of a building in the fo... |
| Date: | 07 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Decorated "units" stand in a line awaiting a children's parade at Conklin Park. The parade was arranged as part of the Board of Education's Recreation Divi... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Bob Narowetz takes off from the top of the jump scaffold at the annual Blackhawk Ski Club jumping tournament at their Tomahawk Ridge site. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with boys on skis preparing to compete at the first ski tournament in Stoughton, Wisconsin, possibly in ski jumping. |
| Date: | 05 25 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities. |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin is shown trying to get on board a new whirl-a-round at Children's Park at Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School. The new pl... |
| Date: | 04 09 1962 |
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| Description: | Sister Janvier, 3rd grade teacher at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, flying a Japanese fish kite with her students at the Edgewood College campus. The k... |
| Date: | 09 03 1965 |
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| Description: | Fran Conrad is shown with golf iron in hand as he measures a putt. He is general chairman of Tamisha, and is preparing for a golf and fun outing at the Lak... |
| Date: | 08 03 1965 |
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| Description: | Four boys are pulling a stagecoach at the fifth annual "Family Night" for University of Wisconsin faculty couples, married students and their children. A b... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A group of four young boys are sitting and standing around a hole dug into the sand and filled with water. One boy is placing the muddy sand onto the head ... |
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| Description: | View across ice towards two people in an iceboat on Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | View from front of boat towards three men, three women, and a young girl and a boy riding in a launch. The boat cover shades the people in the front, while... |
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| Description: | View from pier of a young couple sitting in a motorboat launch with an older woman. The two women are wearing hats with voluminous scarves and light-colore... |
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| Description: | View across frozen lake towards cars parked on the ice near fishing huts. A shoreline lined with trees is in the far background. |
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