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Stuffing Musky at Musky Jamboree

Date: 08 09 1972
Description: Two elderly women are stuffing and tying a musky with string before cooking it. The women are wearing buttons with an image of a musky that reads: "I am a ...
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World Food Exposition

Date: 09 1967
Description: Men and women standing or walking the grounds outside of the Alliant Energy Center during the World Food Expo. A large globe of the Earth is just outside t...
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Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: Two horses standing in the snow are hitched to a wagon holding a metal trough. Behind the horses smoke is rising up from the sugar house where maple sap is...
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Collecting Maple Sap

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A youth, dressed in red hat and sweatshirt, plaid pants, and brown work boots, is pouring maple sap from a bag into a metal bucket. In the background a man...
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Maple Syrup Storage Tank

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A man is sitting on a large metal cylinder storage tank while piping maple sap from a metal trough on a wagon into the tank. Sap bags are on trees in the b...
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Woman Collecting Maple Sap

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A young woman collecting maple sap from a tree in a metal bucket. Snow is on the ground.
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Sugar House

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: View uphill towards a sugar house, constructed of vertical logs, with a tall, metal chimney at the back. Smoke is coming out of the partially open double d...
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Evaporating Maple Sap

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A man is standing just outside of the partially open double doors of a sugar house and loading more logs into the evaporator. Logs, fuelwood, and a chainsa...
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Ore Dock

Date: 08 1971
Description: Aerial view of an ore dock next to Hog Island. The town is in the distance. In the far background are the white storage buildings of the oil refinery.
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Cargo Ship "Henry LaLiberte"

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Description: View across water towards the cargo ship "Henry LaLiberte" sitting in a loading dock under a cargo crane.
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The Pioneers

Date: 06 1971
Description: Bronze statue of a standing man pointing off into the distance, with his wife sitting beside him holding a baby in her lap. The statue sits on a stone plat...
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End of the Trail

Date: 1971
Description: A bronze statue of an American Indian man riding a horse. Words carved into the base of the stone pedestal read: "The gift of Clarence Addison Shaler."
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Recording Angel

Date: 1971
Description: A bronze statue of a female angel holding a large book in her lap is in front of a marble gravestone. Gravestones are in the background on the right.
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Dyeing Fingerlings for Later I.D.

Date: 1971
Description: A man is bending over and standing on a flat metal rail over a vat of water. The man is wearing a dust mask over his face, and is holding two screens dyed ...
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Octagon House

Date: 1970
Description: View across yard towards the Octagon House.
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Davidson Windmill

Date: 1971
Description: View of a white and green windmill with eight blades is surrounded by a small fence in a rural area. Trees are in the far background.
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The Red Mill

Date: 08 1972
Description: View along shoreline towards a red mill building with a wood waterwheel on a river.
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Jaeger Rye Mill

Date: 07 1971
Description: View looking upriver towards the Jaeger Rye Mill, also known as the Danville Mill, on the left in front of a small dam. Trees are along the banks of the Cr...
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Hearthstone

Date: 07 1968
Description: View across lawn towards the historic Hearthstone House. A historic marker is in the foreground on the left, and it reads: "Hearthstone, World's first Elec...
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Beyer Home and Museum

Date: 1972
Description: View across front lawn towards the historic Beyer Home. The front porch wraps around the side of the house to the left, there is a three-story tower room a...

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