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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Star Lake, Arbor Vitae Township, with the railroad tracks of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway on right and lake on the left. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Buildings and storefronts in town near bridge and river. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The Yahara River from Williamson Street with Lake Monona in the background. House & Barn pictured is located at 601 Riverside Drive. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colored map showing a panoramic view of Madison in great detail. The Wisconsin State Capitol is located at the center, with Lake Mendota in the background ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on soldier's rock on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Ole Christinson, Dick Hanson, Fred Hanson, and Herman Johnson, Sr., onboard sailboat "Louis Moe" along the shore of Sand Island. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women on board the Lizzie W. sailboat. Captain D.R. Angus, who is at the tiller, owned the Lizzie W., which was named after... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe, Madeline Island, taken from the Mission Inn. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house of Captain Angus on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island sometime around 1900. The Angus family came to Madeline Island in ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river. |
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