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Work at the Fish Hatchery

Date: 1938
Description: Five men work at two long sinks which contain trays holding fish eggs. There are two bare lightbulbs overhead. The caption on the reverse of the print re...
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Dormitories

Date: 09 06 1937
Description: A two-story wood frame building, center, and a small portion of a similar building at left are identified as "dormitories at the State Game Farm, Poynette,...
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Tour at Game Farm

Date: 1935
Description: A well-dressed group of men, women and children have gathered on the lawn near one of the dormitories at the State Game Farm. A description on the reverse ...
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Wyalusing State Park

Date: 08 1940
Description: View looking down towards a woman wearing a striped dress and holding a purse standing at a low stone wall at the Point Lookout observation area above the ...
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Touring Pendarvis House

Date: 08 1940
Description: A group of eight young men, all Georgia Junior Rangers, and two of their guides, are posing in front of Pendarvis House, a Cornish miner's cottage. Five me...
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Viewing the Falls

Date: 08 1940
Description: Elevated view of a group of Georgia Junior Rangers and their guides viewing the Copper Falls of the Bad River.
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Handling a Fire Hose

Date: 08 1940
Description: Two men, one wearing a pith helmet, are directing the stream from a fire hose over a body of water. There are several men in the background, some wearing W...
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Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...
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Pan Fish

Date: 07 1939
Description: A young woman is standing and posing with a stringer of panfish in front of a car with a small travel trailer behind it. She is wearing a wide leg bib over...
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Camping

Date: 07 1939
Description: Elevated view of two young women, wearing nearly identical bib overall-style playsuits, are standing posing holding stringers of pan fish. There are three ...
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Entrance to State Forest

Date: 07 1940
Description: Two well-dressed women are posing next to an automobile parked near the arbor-like gate at the entrance to the Council Grounds State Forest, now the Counci...
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Oshkosh Trading Post

Date: 1935
Description: Two men and a woman are walking from a parked automobile toward the covered porch of the Oshkosh Trading Post, a low, log building on the Menominee Indian ...
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Building the Bathhouse

Date: 1935
Description: Men wearing hats and long overcoats are walking toward the camera from the bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park. Other men in work clothes, members of the ...
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A Day at the Beach

Date: 1935
Description: A man and his wife are wearing swimming suits and posing sitting on the beach. Each of them is holding a small child in their laps. People are standing and...
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Duck Hunting

Date: 10 10 1936
Description: As described on the negative envelope, an unidentified man is standing in his boat, "Shooting at a flock of mallards at Lake Partridge near Fremont on the ...
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Forest Protection Headquarters

Date: 1936
Description: View across street towards men and women standing in small groups outside the brick Forest Protection Headquarters building of the Wisconsin Conservation D...
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Gangster Museum

Date: 07 1937
Description: A small cottage with a tarpaper roof houses the "Gangster Museum" on the grounds of Little Bohemia. The corner of the main lodge is at far left, and Little...
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Fishing at Dam Lake

Date: 08 1937
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man fishing from a rowboat near the shore. He is wearing a light shirt and vest, and a hat. Other boats are moore...
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Observation Tower

Date: 09 06 1937
Description: View looking up towards people enjoying the view from the top of the wooden observation tower at Potawatomi State Park. Two women are standing in the parki...
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Gills Rock

Date: 09 06 1937
Description: Men and women are standing around the ferry landing at Gills Rock. Automobiles are parked along the drive. Fishing nets on dryers are stacked at left, in f...

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