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Angle Worm Station
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View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first successful steamboat, Scutanawbequon, launched July 21, 1864. There is an advertisement for Clark and Miller's general store featuring medicines, fancy goods and groceries.
1873
Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923
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Railroad Tracks by Lake Monona
1873
View down railroad tracks at Angle Worm Station alongside Lake Monona. The station's unusual name originated from a speech given by Captain Frank Barnes every Fourth of July on how civilization was...
Formal Group on Steamboat
1875
A large group of well-dressed people are standing aboard three small steamboats on Lake Monona. The boat in the foreground is a barge with a sternwheel. The two behind are sidewheel excursion boats.
View From Southeast Shore of Lake Monona
1875
View from Southeast shore of Lake Monona across a cornfield, perhaps on the farm of Thomas Williamson.
Boat Race on Lake Monona
1870
Stereograph of a lake scene in Madison, probably looking south on Lake Monona at a boat race in progress. From the series "The Beauties of the City of Madison and Vicinity."
Steamboat on Devil's Lake
1875
Elevated view of people, elegantly dressed, posing on a pier, with a steamboat and rowboats docked on it on Devil's Lake. An American flag is on the steamboat. In the background is a bluff along th...
