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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison entrance to Arboretum. Two stone walls flank the road. Two informational signs, including the speed limit, are past the e... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison fire lane surrounded by trees and brush. |
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| Description: | View of pathway through an elaborate garden on the Walhall Estate. Features large ceramic vases, a trellis and a metal fence as well as a stone pathway and... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Hunnewell arboretum featuring a a hill with rows of topiary, Lake Wauban and surrounding woods. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn. |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 05 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Sunlight spotlights a prairie tract where more than 100 members of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum picnicked and toured the area in gr... |
| Date: | 11 2013 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing near a fallen tree with her back to the viewer. She is wearing a light jacket and jeans. There is a partially fallen tree and... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | Among the trees catching the sunlight streaming to the forest bed after a night of thunderstorms is the newly exposed core of a once tall tree glistening i... |
| Date: | 10 10 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a sign with a photograph of an American Goldfinch on a thistle posted on the side of a paved path lined with trees and plants. Just beyond the sign... |
| Date: | 10 10 2014 |
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| Description: | View down a wooden boardwalk with a viewing platform at the end. The view through the trees reveals the preserved wetlands within the Arboretum, called Gar... |
| Date: | 10 10 2014 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline, with cattails and tall grasses growing in the foreground, on the shore of Lake Wingra. Geese are swimming and diving on the lake, and ... |
| Date: | 10 16 2014 |
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| Description: | Trees, shrubs, and tall grasses frame the view of Lake Wingra. Lily pads are growing on the lake surface. Trees from the UW Arboretum, just starting to tur... |
| Date: | 10 26 2014 |
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| Description: | An oak tree, barren of leaves, standing in the middle of tall grass. Trees, some with green, red, and yellow leaves are in the background. A hawk is flying... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Dan Rupnow sniffing the lilac blossoms in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. |
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