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| Description: | Myles Horton with his son, Thorsten Horton, in a pile of leaves at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A vine-covered arched trellis with a yoke hanging from it is over the path leading into the camp. A camp building is in the background. Caption reads: "Pau... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun... |
| Date: | 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Members of the rhythm bands from the Woods and Fontana state graded schools pose outdoors holding their instruments. The children in the front row and on t... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Young child in a highchair. In front of the child on the tray is a toy horse pulling a wagon. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a car parked in front of the main building at Holiday Home Camp. The rambling wood frame building has several sets of stairs leadi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A simple wood frame cottage is built into the slope of the hill above Geneva Lake at Holiday Home Camp. A second building is seen in the background. |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro... |
| Date: | 08 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Frank B. Fargo of Lake Mills, far right, posing, sitting on a board, with three other well-dressed men at the Holstein Friesian Association Picnic. The oth... |
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| Description: | View towards a ski lodge. People with dogs are gathered near automobiles parked in front. Caption reads: "Ski Shelter King's Gateway Hill — Land O' Lakes, ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the bowling lanes. Flags are hanging from the ceiling and along the back wall. Caption reads: The Gateway Inn Bowling Alleys — Land O' Lak... |
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| Description: | View of women playing tennis on a lawn court next to a parking lot. Caption reads: "Tennis Courts at King's Gateway Hotel — Land O' Lakes, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lillian Wheeler is rowing a boat on Archibald Lake. She is looking at the oar. A woman, sitting in the rowboat and wearing a sun hat, is possibly Lillian's... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A group of men are standing in front of the Holt family home on Main Street. Several of the men are holding fishing poles, and they appear ready to go on a... |
| Date: | 02 03 1912 |
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| Description: | On the way to Lakewood, the horse-drawn sleigh stops in Gillett for a picnic lunch. Caption reads: "Mr. Chase, Miss Stuart, Miss Le Tourneaux (sp?), Mrs. W... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs is sitting in the bow of a canoe as a young male companion paddles them on the Namakagon River. Mary is wearing a white blouse and h... |
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