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Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality

Date: 09 05 1913
Description: Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in...
Photograph

Automobile Stuck in Mud

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Description: Men with a tractor attempt to pull out a car stuck in the mud on an early road.
Photograph

Target Rock

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Description: View of a large rock formation. There is a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

Truck Stuck in the Mud

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Description: A man with a tractor attempts to pull a truck out of deep mud. Two men stand on the bed of the truck, and another man sits on the front of the tractor. The...
Print

G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
Postcard

Long Bluff

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Description: Photographic postcard elevated view over field of Long Bluff. Trees and a watchtower are on top of the bluff. In the lower left corner is a long building w...
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Photograph

Old Brundage Farm in Site I

Date: 1935
Description: View of the dilapidated farm from which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
Photograph

New Brundage Farm

Date: 1935
Description: View of the farm to which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
Photograph

Visitors at Camp Douglas

Date: 1887
Description: A group of visitors to Camp Douglas are gathered at the edge of an open field, perhaps observing military exercises. Several carry umbrellas.
Photograph

Camp Douglas Looking North

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Description: Exterior view identified as Camp Douglas from the south looking north. Elevated view of a town with a railroad track and an oncoming train in the center ...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell CCC Dam

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Description: The Civilian Conservation Corps dam built at Camp Petenwell near Necedah.
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Workers and Trucks

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Description: Group of men posing in a field. There are two trucks parked behind the group, and axes are propped up in the foreground.
Photograph

Steam Tractor

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Description: Side view of left side of steam tractor. A man holding either a pipe or an oil can is leaning on the back of the tractor just behind the seat. A dog sits o...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Labor Battalion

Date: 1936
Description: A group of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) men working in a field. On a rough road are three trucks. Two of the trucks have large groups of men in them. ...
Photograph

Greased Pig Chase at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M....
Photograph

Judging Corn

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Native American men, women and children are posing around a table piled with ears of corn in front of a stage in an auditorium. Several of the m...

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