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Flooded Langdon Street

Date: 05 19 1933
Description: View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water.
Drawing

Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrace

Date: 05 30 1973
Description: Memorial Union in the rain. Lake Mendota is visible on the left. In the foreground is the terrace area with trees and brightly colored chairs and tables. P...
Photograph

Rainwater Running through Ditch

Date: 
Description: Rainwater running through a ditch along the side of a paved road. This picture was likely taken as a study of the drainage problems in Greendale.
Photograph

Patrol in a Canoe in the Rain

Date: 1942
Description: A patrol from the 14th Infantry canoeing in the rain in Panama. Three men in fatigues holding sub-machine guns are sitting in a canoe.
Print

International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Assn. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the locations of cities and towns, counties, railway lines, the steamship lines in Lake Superior and lake Michigan....
Photograph

Summer Storm

Date: 09 1984
Description: "Rain and hail, with sun suddenly breaking through the overcast, were the right conditions for an unusual photograph."
Photograph

New Water Tower

Date: 05 29 1997
Description: "On a foggy and rainy morning, work continued as this photo was taken through the windshield of a worker's truck."
Photograph

Rainy Departure

Date: 1925
Description: With hands on the oars, Alfred Holt is looking at the camera as he and his family depart the Island after a vacation on Archibald Lake. On the left is Made...
Photograph

Ready for the Summer Rain

Date: 1936
Description: A man and a woman, probably Eleanor Holt DeWitt and Donald Soule DeWitt, are standing together, wearing rain ponchos and wide-brimmed hats. Trees and Archi...
Photograph

Summer Fun

Date: 1975
Description: A woman spraying water upwards with a hose to create a "rain shower." She is wearing a bikini.

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