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| Date: | 07 1974 |
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| Description: | Nelson takes time out during a campaign trip to talk with two boys. Dressed casually, Nelson is shown squatting down in a marsh area between the boys who a... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | The Little Bohemia Lodge where John Dillinger and his gang escaped from the FBI after a shootout in 1934. The lodge was visited by members of the crew for ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the trading post at Willie's White Birch Lodge. Fishing lures are on display on the back wall behind a counter with signs that read: "Pat'... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Indian boys and girls pose for a group portrait outdoors in front of the government school. |
| Date: | 10 1936 |
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| Description: | A nurse poses outdoors holding a Native American girl at the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation. |
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| Description: | Two women and an infant represent three generations of an Indian family. They are posing at the steps of the Health Center, where they are to attend Mother... |
| Date: | 07 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a poster promoting Camp Milo on White Sand Lake. On it are photographs of the cabins, tents, lake, and boats on the shore. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard from hill of White Sand Lake seen through trees. A raft with a diving platform is near the shoreline. Caption reads: "White Sand Lake... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Men harvest cranberries by raking the fruit across flooded marshes onto a conveyor belt which loads the berries into trucks. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Men with rakes and wearing waders work knee-deep in water harvesting cranberries on a flooded marsh. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the King's Gateway Hotel of Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, with header and footer color views of the hotel and neighboring Gateway Inn. There are ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the King's Gateway Hotel in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, with header and footer views of the hotel and nearby Gateway Inn in color, and overlapp... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Denton House of Eagle River, Wisconsin, with a profile view of a fish printed in brown ink across nearly the entire width of the page, and th... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from the 1920s shows roads, railroads, campsites, lookout towers, and privately owned lands in Northern Forest S... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | These two maps of the Town of Conover, Vilas County, Wisconsin, show private land holdings of a section or more as of 1927 and public lands in 1936. Acreag... |
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| Description: | This map of Vilas County, Wisconsin, from the first half of the 20th century, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, road... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Students pose in front of the Mayo School, District No. 1. There are large pine trees around the one-story building and a low fence in front. A "Mayo Schoo... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Bare trees are silhouetted against the sunlight reflected on Eagle Lake. |
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