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Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Dr. Birge on Trout Lake

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Description: Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remaine...
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Forest Rangers on Horseback

Date: 1912
Description: Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station."
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Railroad Station, Store and Hotel in Boulder Junction

Date: 1915
Description: View looking towards railroad tracks and a station on the left, with a store and hotel on the right. A man is standing near the railroad tracks on the far ...
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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
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Curtiss Flying Boat at Trout Lake

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate...
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Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
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Trout Lake Timber

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard of a stand of tall trees in the forest at Trout Lake. A hat is hanging on the trunk of a tree in the center.
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Pete Christensen at Trout Lake

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Description: Hand-colored portrait of Pete Christensen leaning on a porch post in front of a building. He is wearing a hat slanted against the sun.
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CLH and Ranger Mac

Date: 1911
Description: Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery.
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First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Neil LeMany, Chief Forest Ranger at the Forest Protection Headquarters in Tomahawk, C.L. Harrington, superintendent of the Forest and Parks Division of the...
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Eating Cotton Candy at Aqualand

Date: 1967
Description: A father is standing outdoors next to his two children, who are eating pink cotton candy.
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Tourist Information Booth

Date: 1942
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 ...
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Red Arrow Camp

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t...
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Returning to Camp

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of young men and boys paddling canoes toward the shore of Boulder Lake. A canoe on the left bears the YMCA insignia. Other yout...
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Snowshoeing-Trout Lake

Date: 1948
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake Nursery

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Description: Panoramic view of the nursery at Trout Lake. In the center are three men and a dog standing among seedlings in the nursery. There is a water tower and two ...
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Trout Lake

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Description: Panoramic view across water towards the Trout Lake shoreline. There are two men in a boat in the water in the foreground. There is a boathouse on the shore...
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Group of Men with Seaplane

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Description: View from shoreline towards a group of men sitting and standing on a seaplane pulled up to the shoreline. The pilot is standing in the cockpit. List of na...
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Woman in front of Lodge

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Description: A woman wearing a long coat and hat, and holding a handbag is standing in front of a lodge.

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