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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Scenic view from shoreline over Namakagon Lake towards the opposite shoreline. There are two large buildings nestled among trees with a pergola on the lawn... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pupils and their teacher (rear) pose in front of their school house. Two cars are parked in the school yard. A man and other pupils stand near a water pump... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A one and a half story wood frame house stands behind a wire fence. Wildflowers bloom in the yard and there are several trees near the house. Lightning ro... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Students of the Miles School, Bayfield County District No. 2, read at their desks supervised by their teacher, Mrs. Inez Lindell Bystrom. There is a parlor... |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | An automobile is parked near the Melvin Larson barn in Bayfield County. The large barn has a concrete block foundation, gambrel roof, and three large venti... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A girl posing at the side of the Miles District No. 2 School. Selected as the "girl 4-H champion," Emilie, age 12, was noted by her teacher as "an outstand... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Harold Calder, wearing bib overalls and a cap, poses with his calf, which won second place at the Cambridge Festival in 1931. There are chickens, a small c... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A bell tower stands atop the one-story, clapboard sided Dyer School, District No. 1. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Claire Alexander, 12, identified on the reverse of the photograph as "Boy Champion of 4-H Club" posing wearing bib overalls and a cap with earflaps. Two ot... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing bloomers and long stockings performs a headstand as other girls look on. One of the bystanders is also wearing athletic clothes under her co... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Teacher Marian Violet Metcalf, center, stands among her students as they prepare to roast marshmallows at the school picnic. Picnic baskets and a large mar... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a group of pupils from the Dyer School fishing from the banks of a stream "about a mile south of school." They are using long can... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pupils of the Dyer School, District No. 1 pose in front of the school. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells." |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of a group of women and one man. The guests of the hotel are relaxing under the trees on the lawn of the resort. A man and a woman are hol... |
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