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CCC Camp at Devil's Lake State Park

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Description: Men lined up for mealtime at the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Camp at Devil's Lake State Park. The camp was reportedly opened in 1935 and closed in 19...
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Crossroads Cheese Factory

Date: 1940
Description: Shrubs in full bloom and a vigorous vine growing along the eaves create a picturesque view of a cheese factory. Typically, the long narrow building is buil...
Postcard

Point Henry

Date: 1935
Description: A woman in a light-colored dress is standing at the foot of the steps to a rustic cabin. She is holding a baby bottle and feeding a fawn. The shoreline alo...
Photograph

Sharing a Snack

Date: 1935
Description: An unidentified man, resting a camera on one knee and kneeling on the snow covered ground, is holding a slice of bread in his teeth while a young deer is e...
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Prairie Chicken on Nest

Date: 06 23 1930
Description: The written description on the reverse of this photograph reads: "Prairie chicken incubating her eggs in a nest located 5 miles southwest of Plainfield." S...
Photograph

Prairie Chicken and Eggs

Date: 06 27 1930
Description: A prairie chicken hen is seen in profile near her nest with its clutch of eggs. On the reverse of the print is written: "The bird has stopped to carefully ...
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Bayfield Wharf

Date: 07 1936
Description: Fishing tugs are moored alongside the wharf at Bayfield. The large Bayfield Fish Co. building is identified in large letters on the end of the building. Th...
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Wharf at Marinette

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of fishing tugs moored alongside the wharf at Marinette. Two automobiles are parked in the foreground, just in front of the Bridge Fish Co. b...
Photograph

Packing Smelt

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Commercial fishermen hauling in their net and immediately packing the small silvery smelt into boxes fo...
Photograph

Wharf at Algoma

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of seagulls flying over fishing tugs moored at the wharf in Algoma. Small warehouse buildings line the wharf. Fish net drying reels are visib...
Photograph

Wharf at Fish Creek

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier....
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Cheese Factory

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across harvested field shocks of grain towards the long, two-story brick Carl Marty & Co. factory, featuring a large smokestack and a water tower. The...
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Kraft Phenix Plant

Date: 07 1936
Description: Vines are growing on the side of the brick Kraft Phenix cheese factory building at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Edison Street. Raised letters on the frie...
Photograph

Canning Carp

Date: 11 1936
Description: A man wearing a long leather apron, cap and gloves is operating a machine that secures lids to cans. Written on the reverse of the print is the description...
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Sorting Eggs

Date: 1939
Description: A technician wearing a white tunic is standing near a table holding a partially filled tray of eggs. There are four racks holding additional trays. Bushel ...
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Making Chowder

Date: 08 1940
Description: Joe Norton, left, and his son Bud are tending a large pan of fish chowder cooking over the coals of a campfire on the shore of Green Lake. In the backgrou...
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Yahara River

Date: 03 27 1937
Description: View across water towards a well-dressed man and woman posing in front of a car while another man takes their photograph. A woman and young girl are lookin...
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Smelt Rigging

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards a boy using a single paddle to propel a small rowboat on the Sheboygan River. There are five rigs set up along the sho...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...
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Fishing in the Mill Stream

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man standing on a bank on the right, and two boys standing on a log on the left, are fishing in the mill stream below an old mill. Two b...

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