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Shore View of Mission Dock

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of La Pointe and the shoreline from the Old Mission dock. Two boys and two men stand along the shoreline. The white building with the dark ro...
Postcard

Chippewa Falls, Wis. General View, from South Side of River

Date: 1910
Description: Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger...
Photograph

Northwest Intersection at Fourth and Water

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison from Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1874
Description: View of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W...
Drawing

Dr. Ward School House and Landing Place

Date: 08 24 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; promontory shoreline with houses, trees, and church in background sweeping to right, with long pier jutting into lake. Two boats tied to ...
Postcard

Bechstein's Bathing Establishment

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of a bathing place on the water. A hill is behind the building, and there are a signs for a swimming school and the Wm. Bechstein Co. Severa...
Poster

Nassau Vacation Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster featuring a stylized sun rising over the ocean, advertising spring break vacations to Nassau for University of Wisconsin faculty and students.
Postcard

St. Josephat Church and School

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Description: St. Josephat Church and School from Kosciuszko Park. The classic style church with dome is across a body of water. Three boats with boaters are out rowing ...
Postcard

Swimming Schools at Milwaukee River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from bridge looking over at a hill leading down to bath houses and fenced-in swimming areas for beginners. Establishment of Wm. Bechstein. Ca...
Photograph

West High School Hockey Team

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Group portrait of the undefeated West High School hockey team in uniform with hockey sticks posing on the ice at a rink outdoors.
Photograph

Sigma Chi House

Date: 1903
Description: View from Lake Mendota of house at 630 N. Lake Street. Robert C. Spencer, architect. The Armory and University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse are behind an...
Photograph

Swimming Lessons at Lake Wingra

Date: 07 09 1953
Description: A group of nine girls test the water of Lake Wingra prior to beginning a swimming lesson.
Drawing

Hayward Indian Boarding School

Date: 1900
Description: Perspective drawing of the buildings at the Hayward Indian School. There is a man in a boat in the right foreground and an empty boat in the left foregroun...
Photograph

Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
Photograph

Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view, looking north, from the Hotz family compound near the bluff entrance to Fish Creek. Evergreens and bare birch trees stand in the foreground,...
Photograph

Madison Panorama from University Heights

Date: 1908
Description: Panoramic view of Madison taken from Summit Avenue looking East South East toward Lake Monona. Included in the view are the Camp Randall bleachers, St. Rap...
Photograph

Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: View across water towards a group of pupils from the Dyer School fishing from the banks of a stream "about a mile south of school." They are using long can...
Map or Atlas

Mississippi Project Map

Date: 1964
Description: A simple map of the Mississippi Project. There are symbols at the bottom marking locations for: Voter Registration, Freedom School, Community Center and Pr...
Photograph

Swimmers at Jeffry's Mill

Date: 1933
Description: A diver is caught mid-air as another prepares to dive from a diving platform on the shore of the mill pond at Jeffry's Mill at Eagleville. A boy watches fr...

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