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Taliesin Elm

Date: 02 1982
Description: A large American elm, Ulmus americana, standing amid the snow covered stubble in a cornfield. Taliesin, the home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is...
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View of Gays Mills

Date: 1982
Description: Bare trees frame an elevated view of Gays Mills taken from a snowy hilltop, showing Highway 131, lower right, as it curves into Main Street. Highway 171 en...
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Magnus Swenson Trees

Date: 1982
Description: A solitary Norway spruce is framed by the limb and trunk of a large tree on "Thorstrand," the former estate of entrepreneur Magnus Swenson. Snow is on the ...
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The Poet's Larch

Date: 1982
Description: The lower portion of the trunk of a large larch tree standing beside the farmhouse of poet Edna Meudt. The tree had been toppled by a tornado in 1973 and w...
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Chief Tokaunee Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A very large, spreading bur oak standing in a snow-covered field. There are small conifers planted in the foreground. The oak bears the name of a Ho-Chunk...
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The President's Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A large, spreading bur oak standing in a snowy landscape along a sidewalk on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Van Hise Hall is on the right. The...
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Jackson Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A large, spreading white oak standing in front of a fence in a snow covered open area at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It is named for Col...
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Walter Koehn

Date: 1979
Description: Wally Koehn (1915-1998) posing with his left forearm resting against the giant trunk of a northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) on the Wrigley estate ...

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