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Greetings from Lake Mills

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Description: View across water towards a single-masted sailboat with two passengers sailing in Rock Lake. Dwellings are along the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Greetin...
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Sailing

Date: 08 1934
Description: Rear view of three young men sailing an E-Scow sailboat numbered U 65 in a regatta on Lake Mendota. "NAN TUCK" is painted on the stern of the boat. Maple B...
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Canoe Sailing on Chippewa Lake

Date: 1935
Description: A young man is sitting and holding the mainsheet in a canoe fitted with a single mast and sail. There is a small wake behind the boat. The far shoreline is...
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Red Arrow Camp

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t...
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The "Kayosh" on Lake Winnebago

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Description: View across water towards a three masted sailboat with a crew of four men in Lake Winnebago. More boats are in the background.
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Yachting on Lake Winnebago

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Description: View across water towards a crew of men racing two sailboats. Another boat is in the background on the left.
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Returning to Camp

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of young men and boys paddling canoes toward the shore of Boulder Lake. A canoe on the left bears the YMCA insignia. Other yout...
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Robert Risser, Jr., of 3806 Hammersley Road, on duty watching for boaters in distress on Lake Mendota from the U.W. Lifesaving Services lookout. He is usin...
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: View across water towards the U.W. Lifesaving Services rescue boat, "Isabel III," with Captain Harvey Black at the helm speeding to assist a distressed boa...
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Shores of Geneva Lake

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Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l...
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An Ingenious Affair

Date: 1898
Description: A woman and a boy are sailing the boat named Islander on Archibald Lake. There is a raft in the foreground. Caption reads: "An Ingenious Affair."
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Three Young Men and the Islander Steam Launch

Date: 1904
Description: Three young men are standing on the pier at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. The Islander steam launch is tied to the pier with a rope. Holding a gun...
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Wisconsin Union Terrace Overlooking Lake Mendota

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Description: View of the Terrace at Memorial Union with students and other people sitting around tables in colorful Terrace chairs. Sailboats are out on the lake.
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: A young man with cap and light-colored tie is sitting in the stern of a sailboat with five young women. He has his arms around two of the women; two others...
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The Aderyn

Date: 08 1901
Description: The Class A, shovel-nosed sailboat, the Aderyn sailing on Lac La Belle. A handwritten caption on the reverse of the photograph identifies Herman Ott...
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The Adventure

Date: 1937
Description: Three men, one hiking out, sailing the Adventure on Pine Lake. A note on the reverse of the photograph identifies Herby Brumder as skipper.
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The Vidette

Date: 1917
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man wearing a cap sitting on the deck of a sailboat, the Vidette at the pier of Villa Henrietta, the Brumd...
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Regatta

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of a motor launch, "dressed" with signal flags, alongside several racing yachts on a lake.
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View across water towards Herbert Edmund Brumder. He is using an oar as a tiller on a rowboat fitted with a small sail. A small bathhouse and swimming pier...
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At Pine Lake

Date: 1927
Description: View towards the front of a sailboat in which Herbert E. Brumder, wearing a visor, right, and an unidentified boy on the left, are sitting. The sailboat w...

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