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Aztalan State Park

Date: 1945
Description: Field prior to the park's reconstruction, with a fence in the foreground. A river is at the bottom of the hill.
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Men with International Motor Hay Press

Date: 1915
Description: Men baling hay with engine powered hay press.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Crop Dusting Cranberry Marsh

Date: 08 1936
Description: A plane flies low over a cranberry marsh to dust for leaf-hoppers.
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Field of Native Cranberries

Date: 06 27 1939
Description: Field of native cranberries in bloom.
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Arthur Stubb

Date: 1932
Description: Arthur Stubb, 13, a student at Peck School, "dragging the field before the grain was planted." He poses wearing a cap, jacket and bib overalls, with the re...
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Bird Feeder

Date: 1932
Description: Identified as "A lunch counter for birds," a platform feeder has been mounted on a fence post behind Gardners Prairie School, District No. 7, Town of Sprin...
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Girl in a Man's Baseball Uniform

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Description: A girl standing in a field dressed in a man's baseball uniform. She is looking over her shoulder at the camera, and another woman wearing a hat and trouser...
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Ladies on a Fence

Date: 1904
Description: Four young women wearing long white dresses climbing and posing on a fence.
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Village

Date: 1910
Description: View across field towards a fenced village of elevated, thatched buildings.
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Preparing a Seed Bed

Date: 1925
Description: An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf...
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Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...

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