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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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Boy Skiers at Ski Meet

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Winter scene with boys on skis preparing to compete at the first ski tournament in Stoughton, Wisconsin, possibly in ski jumping.
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Mount Trempealeau, Perrot State Park

Date: 06 1936
Description: Caption reads: "Perrot State Park (Trempealeau vicinity), Wis. Mount Trempealeau, as seen from Brady's Bluff. View looking west. Photo by the Wisconsin Con...
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Peninsula State Park

Date: 09 26 1945
Description: Elevated view of Peninsula State Park.
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Peninsula State Park from Sven's Tower

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Description: Elevated view of the park and the Lake Michigan shoreline. Description on the photograph record reads: "Looking Northeast from Sven's Tower."
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Cox Hollow Lake

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Description: Elevated view of a park scene near Cox Hollow Lake, at Governor Dodge State Park. In the foreground, a man is grilling at a picnic table, while two women a...
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Little Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

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Description: View from below towards two waterfalls along a rock formation. A person is sitting on the rock outcropping between the falls.
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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse

Date: 03 30 1953
Description: External view of the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse (also called the Eagle Bluff Light), which is located in Peninsula State Park near Ephraim.
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Smelt Carnival Wrestling Match

Date: 04 1939
Description: A man, wearing galoshes, is standing in a sports ring and dumping fish out of a box labeled Lester Fisher Fisheries. People are in the background behind th...
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Columbia County from Gibralter

Date: 11 23 1949
Description: Elevated view of a field, with farmland, roads, houses, and groves of trees.
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Apple Trees in Bloom, Kickapoo River Valley

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Description: View of several blossoming trees, along a worn path. Telephone lines are in the background.
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Dundee Kame

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Description: View across a field toward a kame, a cone-shaped hill formed by water pouring down through a hole in a melting glacier.
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Snowshoeing-Trout Lake

Date: 1948
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake.
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Hunter's Retreat

Date: 1950
Description: View of a snow-covered cabin in the north woods.
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Skiing on the University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 1948
Description: A man cross country skies on the snow covered University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the background are a building and tall pine trees.
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Winter Scene

Date: 1945
Description: Caption from calendar reads: "Evergreens and drifted snow form a Christmas picture on the University campus."
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Kettle Moraine State Park

Date: 1950
Description: View looking down hill towards people walking through trees in deep snow towards a picnic area below at Kettle Moraine State park.
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Summer Time on Miles Lake

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of a man fishing in a rowboat seen through a stand of Birch trees on Miles Lake.
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Calendar

Date: 1946
Description: Two canoes are pulled up on the shoreline in the Flambeau River State Forest.

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