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| Description: | Three sailboats on Lake Winnebago, U50 (Eskimo), U7 and J7. Crew members are on the boats. The water is choppy and the sky is cloudy. In the background are... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
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| Description: | Along a wooded shoreline, three children (probably J. Robert Taylor's two daughters and son)are in two boats playing. In one boat a young boy in white is ... |
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| Description: | A group of seventeen young people of varying ages posing outside against a hill with bicycles and a set of rowing oars. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the new bath house at Devil's Lake State Park, taken from the pier. Two small boats are pulled up to the shore and two girls are wading in the wate... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state.... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | This 1964 maps shows roads, boat landings and marinas, campgrounds, canoe trails and portages, and lakes and streams in parts of Vilas, Oneida, and Iron co... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Illustrated map of points of interest, including University buildings, parks, athletic venues, fraternity and sorority houses, and state buildings. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view over water towards boats and boaters at a resort. In the background are people and boats near a pier. The resort is among trees on ... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | Please listen to the great owl Please listen to the education Please learn how to save hard things for the easy way |
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| Description: | A word without momentum that settled on a note of calm caught wind and spun its venom into froth, to cool a Sunday afternoon in June |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of mile-long view of Lake Raymond (now known as Seventeen Lake), with several campers in foreground, and other campers in canoes on the lake.... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline from pier of campers in boats on the water. Rowing crews and kayaks are in the foreground. Original caption notes that this image offer... |
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| Description: | View across water of five young women in a rowboat near the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Young girl sitting in a paddleboat on the water. The girl wears a swimming cap and a one-piece swimsuit, and has her hands on the handles that spin the pad... |
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