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Loggers with Pine Tree

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Description: Two men with a saw stand by a large pine tree recently cut down.
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Smokey Bear with Sign

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Description: Cut-out of Smokey Bear standing next to a sign that reads: "Mr. Sportsman..Thanks for helping prevent forest fires. Smokey."
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Jack Pine Planting

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Description: Man in the midst of young Jack Pines planted at Nicolet National Forest.
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Fire Lookout Station

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Description: Fire lookout station in Northern Wisconsin forest next to tall trees.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Car Advertisement

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Description: A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town.
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McDonald's Billboard

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Description: A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d...
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Nuclear Bomb Testing

Date: 04 25 1953
Description: A mushroom cloud from possibly Yucca Flats, Nevada where there was a nuclear bomb test.
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Robot and Baby

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Description: An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England.
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Ballplayer at Bat

Date: 06 07 1900
Description: The faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater play a game of baseball.
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Canoeing on Rainbow Lake

Date: 1945
Description: Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes.
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Boating on the Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse.
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Swimming Race at Camp Wakanda

Date: 1923
Description: Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda.
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Skateboarding

Date: 10 10 1977
Description: View down sidewalk of a skateboarder doing a handstand on a skateboard. Pedestrians are watching from the left.
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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
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Toboggan Ride

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Winter scene with Lawrence College students tobogganing at Rib Mountain near Wausau.
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Man Snowmobiling

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Description: Man jumps off a hill on a "Johnson" snowmobile.
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Two Women Motorboating

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Description: Two women motorboating and waving to the photographer.

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