Reproduced below are most of the images that appear in the slide show on the home page of this website, along with captions describing where they were taken and suggesting some of their signficance to me. All photos taken (and copyrighted) by William Cronon unless otherwise noted.
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5601 Varsity Hill in 1962
This was the home on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, that my parents moved to in 1962, when I was 8 years old.
(Photograph by Edmund David Cronon, Sr., my grandfather) |
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E. David Cronon
in Study at 5601 Varsity Hill, 1962
My father's book-lined study, and the historical research and writing he did in it, is undoubtedly one of the most powerfully evocative memories of my childhood.
(Photograph by Edmund David Cronon, Sr., my grandfather)
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E. David Cronon's Grave
My father's grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin.
He died on December 5, 2006. |
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Jean Cronon Skyping
My mother had never sent an email in her life while my father was alive. Now, she emails, Skypes, surfs the Web, and navigates the Internet with increasing skill. That's me taking the photo in the lower left-hand corner. |
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The Big Oak,
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve
(Summer scene)
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The Big Oak,
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve
(Autumn scene) |
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Emergent Plants, Picnic Point Marsh |
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Eagle Heights Community Gardens
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve |
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Wire Fence Engulfed by Catalpa Tree
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve |
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Remnant Flower Garden in
Frautschi Points Woods |
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Stone Masons' Storage Pile
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve |
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Oak Tree at Sunset
Raymer's Cove
UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve |
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Autumn Colors
Lakeshore Nature Preserve |
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Wisconsin State Capitol at Sunrise |
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Bascom Hill Autumn Sunrise |
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View of Madison from Window
of Van Hise Hall |
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Chadbourne Avenue in Autumn
The block on which I live during one of its prettiest seasons. |
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Eagle with Fish in Talons
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Brownstone Quarry
Basswood Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Grasses by Shore
Manitou Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Grasses by Shore at Sunset
Manitou Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Sunset, Manitou Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Backlit Children on Raspberry Island |
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Raspberry Island Lighthouse
Curtains at Sunse |
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Rusting Car
Sand Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Rusting Farm Equipment
Sand Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Collapsed Chimney
Sand Island
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore |
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Site of the Portage |
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Hwy 33 Intersection with Wauona Trail
(The Portage) |
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Birdseye View, 1868
Portage, Wisconsin |
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Cook Street, Portage, Wisconsin
Postcard at Portage Public Library |
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Cushing's Grocery Store
Dewitt Street
Portage, Wisconsin
Portage Public Library |
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Fort Winnebago Locks
Portage, Wisconsin
Postcard at Portage Public Library |
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Old Indian Agency House
Portage, Wisconsin
Postcard at Portage Public Library |
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Ft Winnebago Commissary Ruins |
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Silver Lake Street
Portage, Wisconsin
Portage Public Library |
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Grave of Helen Leng
Portage, Wisconsin |
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Aldo Leopold's Shack
Sauk County, Wisconsin |
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John Muir's Carved Wooden Clock
One of the treasures of the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison is John Muir's amazing carved wooden clock, which supposedly kept time, tracked the phases of the moon, and timed his studies by raising and lowering the textbooks he was supposed to read. |
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Pioneer Cemetery,
Badger Army Ammunition Plant
Cemetery contains remains f early settlers whose farms were seized by the federal government in 1941-42 to create an explosives plant for the war effort. |
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William Cronon Self Portrait
in School Bus Mirror
Self portrait taking during tour of Badger Army Ammunition Plant site, March 2008 |
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Crawford Foot Path, Mt. Washington
The oldest recreational footpath in the United States. |
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USGS Benchmark on Mt. Washington
One of my favorite mountains to hike in the northeastern United States. At 6288 feet above sea level, it is the highest mountain in New England, and one of the most dangerous mountains in the nation. |
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A Walk Along the Maine Coast |
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Maine Beach Sands at Low Tide |
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Plimoth Plantation,
Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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Dugout Canoes, Plimoth Plantation |
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Plimoth Plantation,
Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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Plimoth Plantation,
Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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Potomac River Lawn at Sunrise |
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Old Virginia Barn in Piedmont Country |
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Antietam Bridge
The famed bridge over Antietam Creek that played a key role on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest single day of fighting on any battlefield in all of American history. There were 23,000 casualties within a few miles of this bridge. |
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Post-Katrina Tilted House
Ninth Ward, New Orleans |
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Post-Katrina Tourist Sign
Ninth Ward, New Orleans |
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Ninth Ward Lives
Scrawled in Pavement, New Orleans |
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Old River Control Structures
Army Corps of Engineers |
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Interstate Highway Rearview Mirror
Western Minnesota |
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Dew on Leaves
North Cascades
(Photography by Hilary Fey Cronon)
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Backlit Grass
(Photography by Hilary Fey Cronon) |
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Teton Reflections
(Photography by Hilary Fey Cronon) |
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Rafting Grand Canyon |
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Colorado River in Grand Canyon |
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Jellyfish Display
Monterey Aquarium |
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Seattle Hotel Room Sunrise View |
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Seattle Public Library |
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Misty Fjords, Alaska |
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Alaskan Moss-Covered Log
at Low Tide |
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Lighthouse, Lynn Canal, Alaska |
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Salmon Drying, Alaska |
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Ruins on Unga Island, Alaska |
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Collapsed Schoolhouse
Unga Island, Alaska |
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Dew on Leaves
Pribilof Islands, Alaska |
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Autumn Foliage
Near Melaleiti, Iceland |
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Midsummer's Eve Bonfire
Melaleiti, Iceland
(Photograph by Hilary Fey Cronon) |
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Snaefellsnes at Sunset
View from Melaleiti, Iceland |
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Midsummer's Eve Sunset
Melaleiti, Iceland |
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Black Church Near Snaefellsnes
Iceland |
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Kelp on Beach
Near Snaefellsnes, Iceland |
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Mountains Above Öxnadalur
(Oxen Valley), Iceland
This was taken high on slopes above a farm called Hraun (meaning "Rockfall") that is famous for being the childhood home of the great romantic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson. |
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Moss and Stream, Öxnadalur (Oxen Valley), Iceland
This was taken high on slopes above a farm called Hraun (meaning "Rockfall") that is famous for being the childhood home of the great romantic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson. |
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Icelandic Lupine |
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Icelandic Dandelion |
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Icelandic Gull at Dusk |
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Dry Hills, South Island
New Zealand |
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New Zealand Cave Entrance |
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Albatross on Wing
South Island, New Zealand
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Fern Tree
South Island, New Zealand |
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New Zealand Market |
