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Tower Foundation

Date: 1898
Description: View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f...
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Fishing Boat Interior

Date: 1938
Description: Interior view of a fishing boat powered by an International PD-40 power unit and owned by Julius Dettloff. A man stands at the boat's wheel.
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Man Inspecting Clam

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Description: Man inspecting a clam. Another man stands behind him and a shoreline is in the background.
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Clam Shelling

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Description: Men on shoreline clam shelling.
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Clamming Boats

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Description: View from water of clamming boats near shoreline.
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Tugboat Captain, East River

Date: 1968
Description: A tugboat captain leans on a handrail and squints into the sun on a tug in the East River. Part of the wheelhouse is visible behind him.
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Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
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Harvester Walking through Floating Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man wearing waders walks knee-deep through floating cranberries. The wooden boards floating in the water are booms to contain the cranberries for harvest...
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Men Positioning Cranberry Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Men positioning floating booms to confine the cranberries so they can be harvested.
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Man Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man stands waist-deep in water to harvest cranberries with a rake during the harvest.
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Man at Conveyor Belt for Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man stands in the water next to the conveyor belt that transports cranberries into the truck.
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Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.
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Man Pulling Boom

Date: 1997
Description: A man wearing waders walks knee-deep through water and floating cranberries as he pulls a boom used for confining the cranberries so they can be harvested.
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Man Wading through Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man holding a rake wades knee-deep through floating cranberries during the harvest.
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Monona Terrace

Date: 07 2014
Description: View from the top level of Monona Terrace towards the spiral ramp leading to the outdoor parking lot. Just beyond is John Nolen Drive and railroad tracks. ...
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Shadow in the Sugar River

Date: 09 18 2014
Description: View from a bridge looking down at the shadow of the photographer on the surface of the Sugar River.
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On the Raft

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Description: Stereograph of men on a large raft on the Wisconsin River, with exposed, tree-lined rock formations on the shoreline in the background. Wanigans (shelters)...

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