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| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett boat, with a dark tent and eighteen-by-twenty-two camera at a riverbank. An assistant is reclining on the edge of the river next to the boat. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. T... |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Path, "main street," through the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake Mendota, west ... |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli... |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and family dressed in costume sitting in front of a tent at a carnival on the grounds of Taliesin. Taliesin was the summer residence of ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of the Grand Music Band" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Four men in front of tent in the woods. There is a man with a hatchet next to a clothesline between two trees. This is a Centennial encampment on the shore... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of Capt. L.M. Lange's tent and seven Captains" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Vie... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pi... |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pins, "kegels"), a horn (l... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
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| Description: | Fourth of July flag drill at Vilas Park, choreographed by F.W. Kehl in Madison. The land for Vilas Park was donated to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive ... |
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| Description: | The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cook's tent on a raft in the midst of a log drive on the Wisconsin River. |
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