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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of the University of Wisconsin-Madison grounds looking from the water of Lake Mendota. A line of trees grows along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View over water of Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, as seen from a boat in Lake Mendota. Part of a b... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from Lake Mendota of the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse. A large crowd gathers on the porch and landing of the boathouse, perhaps to watch ... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of trees around the shore of a lake from across a field. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of the residence of Lucius Fairchild, in Madison. A woman is standing outdoors near the entrance. A fence surrounds the yard of the house,... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, high-collared blouse, jacket, and long skirt sits in a rowboat while rowing a small boat, presumably on Lake Mendota. A cat sits at ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards two small sidewheel steam launches on Lake Monona. The sign on the steam launch on the left side of the pier reads: "Scutanawbe... |
| Date: | 08 27 1896 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of Turvill's new sailboat tied to a dock. A women is standing on the narrow wooden dock. A man is standing in the sailboat, with ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Men ice skating on Lake Monona, with two young boys. Other skaters are behind them, and the far shoreline is in the background. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View from sloped lawn of the Lake Mendota shoreline, with the Olin boathouse in the foreground, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse on the ri... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view of Madison from a lake shoreline. Unknown location. |
| Date: | 12 1895 |
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| Description: | A northeast view of Madison from University Pier. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Original title reads, "Bathers assemble [swimmers in Lake Monona]." Women and men, wearing suits, hats, and long dresses, are standing near the lake shorel... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Capitol Park of Madison City Hall with clock tower, 2 West Mifflin Street. Lake Mendota is in the far background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across water towards where brothers John and August Lindstrom had a pop factory at 409 N. Blair Street during the 1870s and 1880s. They lived above th... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from pier of groups of people walking along a Lake Monona dock and on the walkway to the shore. On the right is an excursion boat with a United States... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards the "Columbia" steamboat at the boat landing. The shoreline is the the background. There are three or four people on the steamboat a... |
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