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Passing the Time

Date: 11 1976
Description: Paula Fails and her young niece looking out of an ornate window in a building.
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School Day

Date: 01 1970
Description: Children running to the school bus during a light snow fall.
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Baseball Captains

Date: 1970
Description: Two young boys are deciding whose team will bat first. In sand lot baseball, when deciding which team bats first, one player tosses a bat up in the air. A ...
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Milwaukee Zoo

Date: 1970
Description: A Polar Bear is sprawling on the rock foundation of its enclosure.
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Madeline Island Historical Museum

Date: 1970
Description: View of the Madeline Island Historical Museum and a fence framed by two trees. A wooden sign points the way.
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Blue Heron

Date: 1970
Description: A Blue Heron is standing on a breakwater in Lake Michigan. The Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse is on the horizon.
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Stonefield Village

Date: 1970
Description: A crowd is standing on the boardwalk in front of a building at Stonefield Village, a Wisconsin Historical Society site.
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Old Wade House

Date: 1970
Description: Two people are walking on the brick courtyard at the Old Wade House, a Wisconsin Historical Society site. The Old Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoac...
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Pottery Class

Date: 1970
Description: A woman is throwing a pot on the wheel in a pottery class.
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Duck Creek

Date: 1970
Description: Water flows over a spillway and ice on Duck Creek.
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White Christmas

Date: 12 1970
Description: Fresh snow covers everything on a city street at Christmas time.
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New Snow

Date: 1970
Description: New snow on the steps at Devil's Lake, with a broom leaning on the hand rail. Trees are in the background.
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Cold Vigil

Date: 1976
Description: A woman wearing a hat and a plaid scarf over her head is ice fishing in Governor Dodge State Park. She is sitting on a bucket with her feet on a board.
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Winter Winds

Date: 1976
Description: Deserted farmstead with a cow standing in the snow at the base of a windmill. The wooden portions of the stone farmhouse are deteriorating, and many pieces...
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Hay Loader

Date: 1976
Description: View from inside a barn towards a farmer moving hay bales by hand out of the wide door. Snow is on the ground, and trees, buildings, a fence are in the bac...
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Tireless Fun

Date: 1973
Description: Five children in snow tubes are returning to the top of the hill by hanging onto the tow rope.
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Winter Mooring

Date: 1976
Description: Fishing boats wintering on Lake Superior, which is frozen and covered with snow. Wooden fishing boxes are strewn in the foreground, and a wooded shoreline ...
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Foul!

Date: 1976
Description: A referee has his fist raised over his head indicating a foul while standing over a basketball player lying on the floor. They are at the State Boys High S...
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Persuasion

Date: 1975
Description: The State Legislature in session at the State Capitol. The board indicating votes cast is overhead.
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Equipment Manager

Date: 1976
Description: A boy is walking towards the camera carrying three bats, a baseball mitt and a baseball. His shirt displays the number 35 or 85.

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