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| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 26 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f... |
| Date: | 11 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men on a boat called Balbo owned by Felice Golino of St. John's Shrimp Company. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit and ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a fishing boat powered by an International PD-40 power unit and owned by Julius Dettloff. A man stands at the boat's wheel. |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of men posing on horse-drawn wagons parked in front of the Conklin Ice House. In the background on the right is Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | A group of eleven men is posing outdoors in front of a two-story building. On the far left is a man working a large bellows, perhaps for blacksmithing. Mos... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Robert Risser, Jr., of 3806 Hammersley Road, on duty watching for boaters in distress on Lake Mendota from the U.W. Lifesaving Services lookout. He is usin... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Boat rescue crew member, James Crary, is dashing down the pier from the U.W. Lifesaving Services facility to board the rescue boat," Isabel III," to help a... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Captain Harvey Black, in aviator sunglasses at the helm, skippers the rescue boat, "Isabel III," speeding towards a stranded sail boater on Lake Mendota. T... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | A city parks department worker helps with the spring clean-up by raking the lawn at Brittingham Park beside Monona Bay. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Tower of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street while it is under construction. Steel vertical and horizontal members,... |
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