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Stevens Point Urban Area Map : Including: Village of Plover, Village of Park Ridge, Village of Whiting, Town of Hull, Town of Plover, Town of Linwood

Date: 05 16 1994
Description: The front side of this map shows roads, highways, the Wisconsin River, Stevens Point Airport, and surrounding towns. A street index is included along the r...
Map or Atlas

Diagram of Fort Winnebago and Out Buildings 1835

Date: 1990
Description: This map, in addition to the Fort ground and buildings, shows owners of outbuildings, heights of buildings in stories, fences, roads, gardens, and cemetery...
Postcard

Polish Catholic Church

Date: 1909
Description: View towards the Polish Catholic Church and parsonage. There is a crowd of women and children standing in the unpaved street in front. Caption reads: "Poli...
Photograph

Prairie Chicken and Eggs

Date: 06 27 1930
Description: A prairie chicken hen is seen in profile near her nest with its clutch of eggs. On the reverse of the print is written: "The bird has stopped to carefully ...
Photograph

Forest Protection Float in Centennial Parade

Date: 1958
Description: Elevated view over a crowd of people watching a parade. The Wisconsin Conservation Department float is coming down the road. It features a forest with taxi...
Photograph

Log Chopping Contest at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is standing on top of a braced wood block. He is bending over as he swings his ax at the wood block on which he is standing. A crowd of people are wa...
Photograph

Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
Photograph

Carving a Wood Owl with a Chainsaw

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is bracing himself on a log while using a chainsaw to carve an owl out of a log.
Photograph

Two Unidentified Deer Hunters with Four Dead Deer

Date: 1908
Description: Two deer hunters are sitting on a low bench with their rifles and four killed deer. The deer have tags on their ears.
Photograph

Pat Lucey Debating Jack Olson

Date: 10 27 1970
Description: Democrat Patrick J. Lucey speaking from a podium as his Republican opponent in the race for Governor of Wisconsin, Lt. Gov. Jack Olson, sitting at right, i...
Photograph

The Quiet Time

Date: 1953
Description: Snow-covered farm buildings and trees, with a path through the snow cutting across the field in the foreground.
Photograph

Sport Illustrated

Date: 1956
Description: An adult and a child riding a toboggan down the slide at Iverson Park.
Photograph

Pot Hole Repair

Date: 01 10 1984
Description: Two men are shoveling steaming asphalt from the rear of a truck. Caption reads: "Portage County Highway Department workers Victor Peters (left) and Arleigh...
Postcard

Soo Line Depot

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Soo Line Depot, Stevens Point, Wis." The depot was built in 1918 of brick in the Prairie School style. There are pedestrians on the p...
Postcard

Private Cottages, River Pines

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Private Cottages, River Pines, Stevens Point, Wis." Two men and a woman stand together in front of clapboard cottages while viewing a...
Postcard

Main Street Looking West

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Main St. looking West, Stevens Point, Wis." A busy, unpaved street crowded with horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians on the...
Postcard

Plover Paper Mill

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Paper Mill Road, Showing Plover Paper Mill, Stevens Point, Wis." View of an unpaved road leading to a paper mill on the Wisconsin Riv...
Postcard

Holiday Inn

Date: 1963
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Holiday Inn, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. US 51 North. 715-341-1340. Large luxuriously decorated guest rooms, with Color TV. Inside co...
Postcard

Martin's Island

Date: 04 29 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Martin's Island, Stevens Point, Wis." Two women, one standing and one sitting behind a boat pulled up on the shore of the Wisconsin R...
Postcard

Hardware Mutuals

Date: 1955
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Home Office, Hardware Mutuals, Stevens Point, Wis. This building of strength and beauty is the headquarters of Hardware Mutuals - o...

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