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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A view of Lone Rock from below, with a canoe on the left-hand side. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men "witching up." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Two men on raft putting in a twister. There is a rock wall formation in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men working on rafts. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four raftsmen shipping an oar in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Jim Short steering a raft riding the rough waters of the river. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a raftsman, Jim Aljoe, standing with his elbow propped on his knee holding the end of the rudder. A second man is sitting on the raft in the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Two men on a raft that is breaking up are throwing a rope to a man standing on rocks on the riverbank. |
| Date: | 10 1889 |
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| Description: | South side of Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl. Hattie and John Bennett in the boat; Nellie Bennett seated beneath the tree. |
| Date: | 08 24 1886 |
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| Description: | View across water of several men steering a lumber raft over the dam at Munger's Mill. A second raft is in the background, in front of railroad bridge. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Below Kilbourn log dam, 1890s. Two girls are standing on the edge of the river. There is a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 07 16 1899 |
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| Description: | View along sandy shoreline towards the Bennett family on the beach at High Rock. Ashley and Helen are in the boat, and Miriam and Ruth are standing on the ... |
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