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Paper Mill

Date: 
Description: Unidentified paper mill. The holding pond for the paper mill is in the foreground.
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Boating on the Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse.
Drawing

Milwaukee River Downtown

Date: 1874
Description: Milwaukee River in the downtown area, looking south from the west side of the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge.
Map or Atlas

City Plans for Cornell

Date: 1867
Description: Drawn map showing planned development of Cornell, including a couple of schools, Oakwood cemetery, the public square, and several bridges and dams.
Photograph

Copper Falls

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of the waterfall where the Bad River tumbles over the Keweenawan Trap Ledge.
Photograph

Copper Falls

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of the Copper Falls on the Bad River.
Photograph

Lake

Date: 1940
Description: View of a lake in Highland State Forest.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona

Date: 
Description: View across Lake Monona towards the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Picnic Point from Observatory Hill

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Description: Picnic Point from Observatory Hill.
Photograph

Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: Second Point in Maple Bluff looking toward Woodward's Grove.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Company New Low Manure Spreaders Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester New Low manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man riding on a horse-drawn manure spre...
Photograph

The Dalles of the St. Croix River

Date: 1963
Description: Elevated view of the Dalles on the Saint Croix River with boats docked and crossing.
Photograph

Fisherman of Chequamegon Bay

Date: 1950
Description: Vern Frechette (left) and Leonard Larson show their catch of trout caught during ice fishing on Chequamegon Bay.
Photograph

Ice Fisherman and Ice Shanty

Date: 
Description: Ice fisherman Bruno Grotzke of Ashland poses in front of his fishing shanty on Chequamegon Bay.
Photograph

View from Lake Road

Date: 1949
Description: View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Road, across Lake Monona. Two large trees frame the view.
Photograph

Wells Street Bridge

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company.
Photograph

Shell Manufacture at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1941
Description: Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In anothe...
Photograph

Shell Manufacture at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1941
Description: Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In this o...
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Man Drinking Outdoors in Field

Date: 1949
Description: A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o...
Photograph

Field Mill

Date: 1938
Description: Field mill powered by an International PD-40 power unit. The power unit was owned by Walter Brown; a bridge and a body of water are to the right of the bui...

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