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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Star Lake, Arbor Vitae Township, with the railroad tracks of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway on right and lake on the left. |
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| Description: | Two boys, probably brothers, using a small boat with outboard motor. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a machine shop, with a wagon in the foreground. A body of water is behind the shop, and railroad tracks curve around to the right. A sign ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of trees along a fence in front of Boulder Lake. |
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| Description: | Large group of guests at Warner's Resort, Plum Lake, enjoying a boat ride. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Barracks buildings at the Crystal Lake Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Wet boathouse that belonged to Don Walkins, on Catfish Lake. A woman stands on a pier near a boat. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View down lake shoreline on Lake Manitowish at Little Bohemia. There are stairs coming down to the lake, and a bench, as well as docks, a flag pole and a d... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of a one-story log lodge, the Tavern - Crawling Stone Lodge, and a tipi with trees in the background and foreground. There is a lake behind the lodge. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly Benton C. Black, delivering films to Campo Fiesta at Trout Lake. The delivery is being made in a Seabee seaplane by the Amphibious Motion P... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Bare trees are silhouetted against the sunlight reflected on Eagle Lake. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se... |
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