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| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of Georgia Junior Rangers and their guides viewing the Copper Falls of the Bad River. |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a coal barge pushed by a stern wheeled steamboat heading upstream from the Mississippi River Lock and Dam No. 9 north of Prairie du Chien,... |
| Date: | 03 11 1936 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man is inspecting a construction of logs and branches, stacked neatly and tied with ropes. He is standing on ice on a cleared area of a sno... |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th... |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 04 24 1936 |
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| Description: | Men are working on a project at the State Fish Hatchery. There is new concrete lining a raceway in the foreground, where a man is working on the floor. Woo... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1936 |
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| Description: | One man is working on a ladder near the side door of a one and one half story, masonry block building with five garage bays. There are two men on the right... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A young woman in a light-colored dress is standing behind a counter as an older man is writing in a notebook. He is holding a tourism brochure for Boulder ... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin... |
| Date: | 04 28 1936 |
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| Description: | A view looking downstream at a recently built concrete dam with four gates. A note on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Dam built by WPA in drainage di... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two groups of men are standing on a temporary wooden bridge over the Totogatic River. There is a large form in place on the left and a complete concrete wi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, looking upstream, of water flowing through a dam. On the reverse of the print is written: "Dam built by WPA on site of old logging dam on the ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Jean A. Pope is smiling broadly while holding a stringer of five bass. He is also holding his rod and reel, and is standing on a small wooden pier. A descr... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed, unidentified woman is standing next to a muskie hanging from a line. She is next to the porch of a large building, and there is an automobi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man standing on a lawn is holding a 48 pound muskie by a wood handled hook. There is a lake in the background, and on the right, the rustic... |
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