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Calvin Coolidge Fishing

Date: 1928
Description: President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Fishing

Date: 1956
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt...
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Gypsy Rose Lee Fishing

Date: 1950
Description: Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Date: 07 1946
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike.
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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Belmont Hotel is behind the capitol on the left, and beyond is Lake Mendota.
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The "Ann Arbor No. 7"

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Description: View from shoreline towards the screw ferry, "Ann Arbor No. 7." The ferry was later named "Viking," then "Viking I."
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Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
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Big Manitou Falls

Date: 1940
Description: Big Manitou Falls with trees and observation area.
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Boulder Lake in Boulder Junction

Date: 1940
Description: View of trees along a fence in front of Boulder Lake.
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High Lake in Boscobel

Date: 1940
Description: View down steep hill through trees towards a rowboat tied to a pier on High Lake, with the far shoreline in the distance.
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Brownstone Falls

Date: 1935
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards the Brownstone Falls in Copper Falls State Park.
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Brownstone Falls

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of the Brownstone Falls on the Bad River.
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Copper Falls

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of the waterfall where the Bad River tumbles over the Keweenawan Trap Ledge.
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Copper Falls

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of the Copper Falls on the Bad River.
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Devil's Lake and the Baraboo Bluffs

Date: 1948
Description: View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image.
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Ephraim from Peninsula State Park

Date: 1950
Description: Downtown Ephraim from Peninsula State Park, directly across the bay.
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Lakeside Park Shoreline

Date: 
Description: View across water towards the shoreline on the right, with a lighthouse in the distance.
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Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers

Date: 1945
Description: Wyalusing State Park in the Prairie du Chein vicinity. The Wisconsin River is in the foreground and the Mississippi river can be seen below with distant bl...
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Lake Michigan Beach

Date: 1965
Description: The Lake Michigan shoreline in the Kohler-Andrae State Park, named after John Michael Kohler and Terry Andrae.
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Sand Dunes

Date: 1965
Description: The sand dunes in Kohler-Andrae State Park, named after John Michael Kohler and Terry Andrae.

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