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| Date: | 07 04 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of view of procession, military company and citizens at Great Centennial Day at the Capitol Square. Scene at Main and Carroll Streets showing t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman stands near the bank of the Red Cedar River in Riverside Park. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Women placing floral garlands on a monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller. The women are wearing decorative hats. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Margery Bish sitting on the wooden stairs at Irvine Park. Two men are standing further back on the tree-lined path. Irvine Park was established in 1906 on ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three women and a child are wading at the Lake Park shoreline. The women are identified as Hattie Taylor and friends, and the child as Tannisse Taylor. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A group of a man, two women and two children playing croquet next to an automobile and a gazebo in a park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of friends pose on a playground slide. Included in the group are Cresence Esser Bowar, Matt Bowar (husband of Cresence), Herbert Esser (brother of ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Edward J. Rickers with UW nightwatchman "Gramps," on a Lake Mendota outing. They are seated on the grass together with a picnic lunch and a campfire. There... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two women sit on a bench in a park. Caption reads "Aunt Lydia with the photographer's wife Mary." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Picnic and play area at Interstate Park, near the St. Croix River. Two girls swing as an adult male sits on a picnic table in the foreground with a child o... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The catcher squats as the batter gets ready to swing at a pitch while the umpire looks on. This image was taken as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Visitors of Milwaukee's sixth annual Midsummer Festival. Men and women walk on the lakefront walkways. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A snowy walking trail in a park, through the trees, in the snow by moonlight. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Copper Falls plunging over rocks on the Bad River in Copper Falls State Park. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Calumet Harbor in Columbia County Park, best known for its boating facilities. In the foreground are the docking facilities, with one boat tied up in the d... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards the A.G. Zimmerman Bridge in Tenney Park during the winter. Large trees are around the bridge. Note from the property record: "rei... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of people fishing and boating in Washington Park Lagoon. Three boys are fishing with long bamboo poles from the bank on the left, and two boys are in ... |
| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Weeping willows overhanging the Rock River in a city park. An adult and child are in the lower left. Rocks are along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | N. Jackson Street near Wells Street. Courthouse Square (now Cathedral Square) is in the foreground. |
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