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Boy Scout Parade

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view. As part of Boy Scout Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, a contingent of scout flag bearers marches over the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the M...
Photograph

Little Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Little Manitou Falls on the Black River. Referred to as the "upper falls" in the park. A person is sitting on the rocks on top of the falls. This waterfall...
Photograph

Aerial View of Milwaukee

Date: 1938
Description: Aerial view of rivers, with Lake Michigan in upper right, train yards, and highway in lower left.
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

Man in Field near Covered Bridge

Date: 1938
Description: A man in the distance is sitting in a field, with a covered bridge behind him spanning a river. Trees are at each end of the bridge, and a fence runs along...
Photograph

Milwaukee Fishing Boat

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of a boat owned by Julius Dettloff docked along the edge of a river. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit; in the backgr...
Map or Atlas

Map of Menominee Indian Reservation

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers, roads, trails, lookout towers, and railroads.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills.
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in Land-Use Problem Areas of Wisconsin : Preliminary

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows "regional designation problem areas" and "nature of problem or solution." The left margin has a key showing the problem areas. The right mar...
Photograph

Milwaukee Brewery Grain Elevators

Date: 1938
Description: View across the Kinnickinnic River of the Pabst brewery grain elevator. A Schlitz building, possibly one of their grain elevators, stands behind the Pabst ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn County Wisconsin

Date: 1938
Description: Map shows roads, townships and sections, railroads, water, and schools.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County Showing System of State and County Trunk Highways

Date: 1938
Description: Color coded map in pink, yellow, blue, and brown of Milwaukee County State and County trunk highways. The map includes a legend of symbols: "STEAM RAIL ROA...
Map or Atlas

Northern Wisconsin Lake Region, the Milwaukee Road

Date: 1938
Description: The map includes text, illustrations, a railroad fare table (season 1938), a Directory of resorts and hotels, and a regional map on the back.
Postcard

Broadway Bridge

Date: 1938
Description: Colorized postcard view from shoreline of a stone bridge lined with lampposts. Dwellings and commercial buildings are on the far side. An elevated railroad...
Map or Atlas

City of Chippewa Falls

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows plat of town, land ownership by name, city limits, section boundaries, wards, local roads, railroads, parks, fairgrounds, cemeteries, locati...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. This map show surface type on state and county trunk highways and the locations of...
Map or Atlas

Guide to Happy Holidays,Winnebagoland, Wisconsin's Big Lake Area Map: Your Vacations and Weekends Closer to Home

Date: 1938
Description: This map shows roads, parks, golf courses, airports, beaches, docks and harbors, lighthouses, and buoys within Winnebago County and parts of Waushara, Calu...
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1938
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and and type of any road shown (...
Postcard

Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Text on front reads: "Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park, Superior, Wis." On reverse: "Manitou Falls, with a specacular drop of 165 ft., is the most outsta...

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