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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Leo W. Capser and Margaret Glover (Mrs. Andrews) lounging on the grass in the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Beach fishing camp showing several people around a fire drying fish with a tent in the background. Captioned: Ottawa Fishing Camp -- On the Island at Fran... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
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| Description: | Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch. |
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| Description: | Five children play in the yard while a young woman watches from the doorway. A boy hangs from a cross bar; a boy rides a rocking horse; two girls sit on a ... |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| 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: | 10 1912 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer... |
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| Description: | Motorcyclists at the start of the race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 05 26 1931 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison crew team holding their long oars, with coxswain on a pier on Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | Six Ho-Chunk men are standing and kneeling around a blanket playing Wah-koo-chad-ah (Moccasin), a favorite game. A typical dwelling (chipoteke) is in the b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Several men in white are shown churning a one-ton tub of butter for exhibit at the State Fair. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mouth of Chapel Gorge Beach showing a canoe at the shore. |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | North addition to University of Wisconsin-Madison Camp Randall Stadium, with steel framework connecting to the old structure on the east side. |
| Date: | 02 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Five Charmany Dairy women bowlers, holding bowling balls at the Madison Alleys, 121 N. Fairchild. They were winners of second place in class B at the Wisco... |
| Date: | 04 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Portrait of bride Arlene Tiedeman and groom Edward Jankowski, U.W. and Green Bay football star, and Lorraine Tiedeman, bride's maid and Charles Pasch, best... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself. |
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