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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
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Eleazer William's House's First Site at Little Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: A woman stands in a marsh near the site of Eleazer William's first house.
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White Pine Blister Rust Eradication Crew

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Description: Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are...
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Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
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Draining Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
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Men in Plowed Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh.
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Reclaiming Swamp Land

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Description: Stereograph showing workers digging a ditch with a tractor and laying drain tile.
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Brule River-St. Croix River Canoe Passengers

Date: 1895
Description: Group of men, with women passengers, poling canoes through a marshy stretch of water on the Brule River-St. Croix River portage between Lake Superior and t...
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Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1938
Description: Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co.
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Menominee Man Standing in a Canoe

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Description: View across water of a Menominee man standing in a canoe in a marsh. He is holding a paddle in his hand. Behind him on the left is another canoe with three...
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Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians Picking Cranberries

Date: 1913
Description: Panoramic slightly elevated view of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians harvesting cranberries by hand at Gebhart's Marsh.
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Birdwatching at Horicon Marsh

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: Vel Phillips standing outdoors wearing a coat holding binoculars.
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Birdwatching at Horicon Marsh

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: Group portrait at Horicon Marsh. Vel Phillips stands in the middle of the group wearing a coat and dark pants. The man on the far right is W. Dale Phillips...
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Vel and W. Dale Phillips at Horicon Marsh

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a coat and a hat, stands on a gravel road with her husband, W. Dale Phillips, who is wearing a coat and eyeglasses. The marsh is in t...
Painting

Man Hunting at Cherokee Marsh

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Description: Photograph of a watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh.
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Man Fishing in Chair

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Description: View across a marshy area towards a man, Mike Heberlein (of Cambridge), fishing while sitting in a wooden, ladder-back, dining chair that is submerged in t...
Postcard

Scene at Chetek, Wis.

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Description: View from shore towards a bridge crossing a river. Three boys are standing in the marshy foreground, and one of them has a fishing pole. A horse and buggy ...
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Reclaimed Marsh Land on a University of Wisconsin Farm

Date: 06 30 1895
Description: A man is standing in the right foreground near a tall plant, perhaps corn. In the center is a square-shaped pond with high banks. A man is in the backgroun...
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Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 09 02 1966
Description: The caption on the reverse of this print explains: "Indians harvesting wild rice. Man poles rice boat while wife uses cedar ricing sticks and strips grain ...

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