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Confiscated Sturgeon

Date: 1942
Description: Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines.
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Ginseng Bed

Date: 1935
Description: A covered metal tank with the words "Schulz" and "Minneapolis" painted on it is standing in front of a slatted shade structure over a ginseng bed. The stru...
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Dairy Farms

Date: 1935
Description: Cumulus clouds are casting their shadows over rolling farmland. Several farmsteads are along a narrow road. There are cows grazing in a pasture. On the rev...
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Dodge County Farm

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view from hill of chickens ranging near their coop behind a farmhouse and outbuildings on a tidy farm. There is a large barn on the right with two...
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Howard Greene's Farm

Date: 07 1936
Description: Three large barns with gambrel roofs and metal ventilators near a narrow road. There is a large silo on the right. The long barn in the foreground bears th...
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Stump Fence

Date: 1930
Description: A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t...
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At Rest

Date: 1935
Description: A farmer resting, sitting on the handles of his plow, with his right foot in the furrow. His team, in harness, are standing head to head. They are in front...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1936
Description: A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac...
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Farmstead

Date: 1935
Description: Large branches of an oak tree frame the view of a large farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings. The two-story house has two front dormers and porches on the fro...
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Young Fox

Date: 1935
Description: An immature fox looking toward the camera, standing with rear legs crouched. There is a chicken wire fence in the background.
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Fox

Date: 09 1930
Description: An adult gray fox looking directly at the photographer. Foliage has been painted in the background, possibly to obscure a chicken wire fence.
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Badger

Date: 1935
Description: An adult badger, standing in front of a small wooden shed in a fenced enclosure, looking directly at the photographer.
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Badger

Date: 1935
Description: A badger approaching his feeding dish in front of a wooden shelter. The photograph was taken through a chicken wire fence, with its shadow visible on the g...
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Three Raccoons

Date: 1937
Description: On the reverse of the print is written: "Raccoon feeding at Experimental Game & Fur Farm, Poynette, Wisconsin." A pan of food is secured in a wooden trough...
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Young Blackneck Pheasants

Date: 08 1936
Description: Young blackneck pheasants flocking together in two adjacent chicken wire fenced pens. There is a shed in the background, right. The description typed on th...
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J.I. Case Company

Date: 07 1936
Description: "Old Abe," the bald eagle trademark of the J.I. Case Company, is shown roosting on a world globe with "CASE" written on it, on the corner of a parapet on t...
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Paper Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi."...
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Netting Pheasants

Date: 04 1946
Description: A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ...
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Abandoned School

Date: 1935
Description: A simple one-room schoolhouse with a hip roof is standing behind a neglected fence. Most of the window glass is gone and the paint has faded. There is a de...
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Twin River Point Lighthouse

Date: 1940
Description: A log gate and log-framed sign mark the entrance to the Twin River (Rawley) Point lighthouse. The keeper's house is next to the light and has a turret and ...

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