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Gypsy Rose Lee Fishing

Date: 1950
Description: Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake.
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Meadow with Tree Stumps

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Description: Grass meadow with rotting tree stumps, possibly after a fire.
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White Pine

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Description: White pines on the Menominee Reservation. A man is standing next to the trees on the left-hand side of the image.
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Men on Snowshoes

Date: 1935
Description: Winter scene with four men walking on snowshoes through a forest.
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The "Ann Arbor No. 7"

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Description: View from shoreline towards the screw ferry, "Ann Arbor No. 7." The ferry was later named "Viking," then "Viking I."
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Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Boy with Fawn

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Description: Young boy petting a fawn deer.
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Flambeau State Forest

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Description: Three men are sitting at the base of a large tree at Flambeau State Forest.
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Tall Trees

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Description: Tall trees in a forest.
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Big Trees

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Description: View of trunks of large, uncut trees.
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Men Fighting Forest Fire

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Description: Several men fighting a small forest fire. One man has a water pack on his back.
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World's Largest White Pine Tree

Date: 1952
Description: The largest white pine tree standing in America, with several people posing beneath it. Its estimated age is 350-years-old.
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Man Feeding Fawn

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Description: A man in a plaid jacket is feeding a bottle of milk to a fawn.
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Commercial Fishing Operation

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of land operations of commercial fishing operation with fish net drying reels and buildings on Apostle Islands.
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Children Swinging

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Description: Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby.
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Wisconsin Conservation Warden

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Description: Wisconsin Conservation Warden checking on beaver traps.
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Wisconsin Conservation Warden

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Description: Wisconsin wardens patrolling waters of Wisconsin in a canoe.
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Forest Fire

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Description: View of a forest fire taken from an adjoining field. A fence separates the field from the burning trees.
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Forest Fire

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Description: View across a field towards thick smoke billowing from a forest fire. People are in an open field in the distance. A road with trucks parked along it runs ...
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Oat Harvest

Date: 09 1929
Description: Harvested bundles of oats in a field on the Dean farm.

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