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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Painting

Battle of Bad Axe

Date: 
Description: Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832.
Photograph

Trempealeau County View

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia.
Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Flambeau State Forest

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

Red Pine Plantation

Date: 06 1948
Description: Ranger Jack Zimmerman in 10-year-old Red Pine Plantation near Blackwell in Nicolet National Forest.
Photograph

Superdome Coach in the Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1953
Description: Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells.
Print

Lead Region of the Upper Mississippi River

Date: 1853
Description: Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region."
Photograph

Surface Digging

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Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
Photograph

Lead Mining Blast Furnace

Date: 1850
Description: Blast furnace, also known as a Scotch hearth used in lead mining.
Magazine or Periodical

North Shore of Lake Superior

Date: 04 1892
Description: Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls.
Photograph

Penisular Power Company

Date: 
Description: Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River.
Photograph

Desert Prayer

Date: 
Description: A camel stands on the desert sands near Biskra, Algeria, as two men pause to face Mecca and pray.
Photograph

Rocky Farmland

Date: 
Description: Field of rocks with a farm in the background.
Photograph

Surveying

Date: 1969
Description: Three men surveying a point in southwestern Wisconsin.
Photograph

Five Men Surveying Land

Date: 1969
Description: Five men surveying land across a road. They're standing near a barbed wire fence.
Photograph

Horse Bones

Date: 
Description: Horse bones, possibly from the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Print

Battle of the Brule

Date: 
Description: An illustration titled "The Battle of the Brule" based on an 1840's battle between the Ojibwe and Dakota Sioux over territory in the Ashland, Wisconsin are...
Photograph

Mississippi River and Bluffs

Date: 03 31 1938
Description: Mississippi River from the bluffs and hills of western Wisconsin, looking south.
Postcard

Fishing Industry on Mississippi River

Date: 1907
Description: Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W...

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