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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, Sauk County, June 21st & 22nd, 1877", with spectators watching rowing shells race. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of three men and two women are standing on a pier inspecting a 15 pound muskellunge. Long Lake is in the background. There is a boathouse at the en... |
| Date: | 03 08 1896 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near a large iceboat owned by Dutton and Wheeler on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 08 1896 |
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| Description: | A bull ("cow") stands in the water on the shoreline of Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The Meinhardt family assembled for a picnic in their garden. A river or lake is in the far background. The table is set with china and flatware. Among the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women standing on a dock watching sailboats cast off. The tree covered shoreline is visible in the distance. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four children lay on their stomachs and pose underneath a canoe, which is overturned on the ground. They are near Delavan Lake. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of people under a tree in a farmyard, with possibly a lake in the background. Two women, with heavy netting on their hats, hold luggage. A toddler ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake. |
| Date: | 06 26 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of three swimmers, two men and one woman, posing on the beach at Lake Calhoun. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from balcony of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Monona is in the upper right background... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a side entrance to the Elizabeth Waters Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for the bride's bouquet toss at the Helen Louise Hadley-Dr. John Farrell Whitman wedding reception at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house, 12... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with Camp Randall in the lower right corner and Lake Mendota, looking northeast to Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from building of Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background. There is ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A copse of birch trees in the woods alongside a lake. |
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