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View from Picnic Point
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View of the city from across Lake Mendota at Picnic Point. There is a tree on the shoreline on the left, and a person is in a boat near the shoreline in the center. University of Wisconsin buildings on the far shoreline include the Observatory and Bascom Hall. Church steeples and the Wisconsin State Capitol are in the distance on the left. There is a tree on the shoreline on the left, and a person is in a boat near the shoreline in the center. Caption reads: "City from Picnic Point."
1900
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Picnic Point from University of Wisconsin-Madison
1900
Picnic Point from shoreline of Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a university building on the hill on the left, and a pier with a boat in the foreground.
Elevated View of Madison in Eagle Heights
1900
Elevated view of Madison through trees. Lake Mendota, buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including the Washburn Observatory are along the shoreline on the right. The Wisconsin State ...
Willow Walk
Cyanotype image of a woman in a rowboat on the shore of the University Willow Walk, near picnic point.
Picnic Point
1900
View down hill with flowers and trees in "the daisy field" on the Lake Mendota shoreline between Raymer’s Cove and Wally Bauman Woods in the current Lakeshore Nature Preserve. The high ground on th...
Observatory Hill
1900
Elevated view of Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus of the United States National, Wisconsin State Farm Experiment Station, Professor Watson' Solar Observatory, Washburn...
