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Plow Furrows

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Description: Furrows plowed to stop a forest fire in Douglas County along County N, west of Solon Springs.
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Office and Administration Building

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Description: The office and administration building at Devil's Lake State Park. A car is parked outside of the building along the road.
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Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
Description: View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I...
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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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Deer Crossing Road

Date: 1938
Description: A small herd of deer in a snowy landscape along a one lane road. The caption on the reverse reads: "While some of the herd bravely crosses the road the oth...
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Deer on Road

Date: 1938
Description: A deer leaping in the middle of a snow covered one lane road. The caption on the reverse of the print reads: "Halfway across the road this deer changed its...
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American Excelsior Company

Date: 07 1936
Description: Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ...
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Clearing Brush

Date: 06 09 1936
Description: Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right....
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After the Fire

Date: 1935
Description: Two logging roads diverge in a stand of burned jack pine trees, dividing the scene into three parts. In the background, near the left branch of the road, t...
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Park Entrance

Date: 1935
Description: A narrow, unpaved road passes under a rustic log arbor-like gate which marks the entrance to Bradley Park. The area is heavily wooded with tall but immatur...
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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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Northern Highland State Forest

Date: 1935
Description: A single lane unpaved road is winding through a wooded area of pine, birch, and other trees.
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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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CCC Camp in Winter

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view, from the South Bluff, of the CCC camp at Devil's Lake State Park. There is a rock outcropping in the foreground on the left. South Shore Roa...
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Scene at Devil's Lake

Date: 1935
Description: The bluffs and lake appear hazy beyond an unpaved road and simple wooden bridge at Devil's Lake State Park. A man or boy at the shoreline can be seen throu...
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Highway 41

Date: 05 1939
Description: View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li...
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Out for Sunday Dinner

Date: 1935
Description: View across snowy road towards men and women posing in front of Idlewild Lodge, a two-story wood framed structure with log siding on the first floor, and a...
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Driveway in Cherryland

Date: 1935
Description: Cherry trees in full bloom line an unpaved narrow lane.
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Skiing

Date: 1965
Description: Three skiers, two men and a woman, are admiring the view from the top of a ski hill. There is an A-frame ski lodge in the valley below, as well as a parkin...
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Door County View

Date: 06 1938
Description: View looking down towards a woman wearing a plaid jacket sitting on the ground with her hand on a dog lying beside her in Peninsula State Park. There is a ...

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