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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View of University Heights, showing a number of university buildings on the agricultural campus, including a windmill. Lake Mendota is in the far backgroun... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from Observatory Hill in winter. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The house was built in the late 1850s or early 1860s by Donnel and Kutzbock, who also built the first Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Originally this h... |
| Date: | 01 25 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a winter scene with men fishing on a frozen lake. Two men pull on the line attached to the fish's mouth, while one holds an axe above its h... |
| Date: | 09 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Labeled as a "freak" snowstorm. A boathouse takes up the majority of the image, with a flag flying over the boathouse. The lake is not frozen, but ice and... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from southeast over treetops of Bascom Hall (formerly University Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota can be see... |
| Date: | 04 1896 |
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| Description: | View from Chi Psi porch on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is stretching towards the right in the far background. There appears to... |
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| Description: | People ice skate on Deer Lake, surrounded by a forested area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a man loading Christmas trees on a sled drawn by two horses. A dog runs in front of them. The sun is setting over a lake or pond with trees... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter... |
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| Description: | View of the S.S. "Spokane" on Glacier Bay. Mountains rise in the background. Caption reads: "S.S. "Spokane" in Glacier Bay, Alaska." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking north. There are dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and a c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house at Black Point, identifiable by its tower, stands above the frozen waters of Geneva Lake. Light snow covers the ground. There is a dog on the ice... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A winter view of the main house at Black Point, seen from the rear (south), showing the distinctive tower, chimneys and porches. A small one-story addition... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A winter view of the William O. Petersen house on the grounds of Black Point Estate, showing the two shed-roofed wings of the house which overlooks Geneva ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A bicycle which has been modified for travel on ice stands on frozen Geneva Lake. The front wheel of the bicycle has been replaced by a ski; the rear wheel... |
| Date: | 01 07 1894 |
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| Description: | Winter view of early buildings on Rocky Roost, which was west of Governor's Island. There is snow on the roofs, on the rocks and on the shore of Lake Mendo... |
| Date: | 03 1916 |
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| Description: | Kurt Ruedebusch and Joe Mills pose in Ernst Schmidt's iceboat on frozen Lake Mendota. Ernst Schmidt was an undergraduate student at the University of Wisco... |
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