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| Date: | 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Belmont Hotel is behind the capitol on the left, and beyond is Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the west wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men stand at the base of the White Pine tree reported in 1945 to be the largest in the world at 16.8' in circumference and 140.42' in height. Larger sp... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Big Manitou Falls with trees and observation area. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of trees along a fence in front of Boulder Lake. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down steep hill through trees towards a rowboat tied to a pier on High Lake, with the far shoreline in the distance. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Church, several houses and field from a hill. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard Hospital, Surgeon's Quarters. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard hospital marker that reads: "Old Fort Howard • 1816 • This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine by the ri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built about 1803 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porlier... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Jeremiah Curtin house located at 8685 West Grange Avenue. This stone and stucco residence was erected in the mid-1830s by Irish immigrants Davi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Building used as a lodging house for the First Territorial Legislature held in Belmont in 1836. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Building used as a lodging house for the First Territorial Legislature held in Belmont in 1836. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Taylor Lake and the entrance to Chain O' Lakes. |
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