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| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | A mature, dense bur oak standing within a small fenced plot surrounded by a field. There is a wooded area in the background. This tree marked the half-way ... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Two large branches of a bur oak near the Horicon Marsh, twisted to point in the same direction, show evidence of human manipulation at the time the tree wa... |
| Date: | 01 1965 |
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| Description: | Phil Sander (1906-2006), noted Kenosha conservationist and environmentalist, posing next to a "trail tree" which has two right-angled curves in its trunk. ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A very large, spreading bur oak standing in a snow-covered field. There are small conifers planted in the foreground. The oak bears the name of a Ho-Chunk... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a very tall bur oak towering over nearby houses at the corner of Main and Franklin Streets. There is a small monument at its bas... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading bur oak standing directly in the intersection of Hammond and Hanerville Roads, both unpaved. There is a row of smaller trees lining Hane... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, probably H.M. Phelps, posing with his right hand resting on the massive trunk of a bur oak which grew on the Phelps farm three miles w... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A grand white oak standing at the northwest corner of Pine and Hickory Streets. The tree dwarfs the house on the left and branches extend completely across... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A towering white ash, devoid of leaves, standing along the sidewalk in front of a two-story brick Norman revival house with a large chimney. There is a du... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large, nearly symmetrical cottonwood standing on the front lawn of a granite-clad colonial revival house on Underwood Avenue (Highway 23). A small sign a... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man and boy, probably John Crombie and his son, posing next to the large trunk of an Eastern poplar, Populus deltoides on the Crombi... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | A tall white pine standing along Lowe's Creek south of Eau Claire. The top of the main trunk has been broken off and a secondary leader has grown from a ho... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women posing at the base of an enormous white pine, named to honor the famous general. Several people are posing at the base of the tree... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A view from the ground looking up the trunk of an enormous white pine named for the famous general. The crown appears disproportionately small due to the h... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Two men posing at the trunk of what was for several years the largest recorded white pine in Wisconsin. At the time of this photograph, the tree was though... |
| Date: | 09 1963 |
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| Description: | A well-matched pair of weeping elms (Ulmus glabra camperdownii) obscuring the front of a two-story house. A swollen ring around the trunk of each tr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A man and three women standing at the base of a large tree, identified as the Muir Locust. The tree grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisco... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A misshapen, tall black oak standing near a sidewalk leading to the Camp Randall Sports Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The center's ... |
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