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White Bass Run

Date: 1942
Description: People fishing for bass off dock.
Photograph

Ice Fishing on Lake Superior

Date: 1942
Description: Two men and two boys standing on ice in front of a windsled. All four are holding lake trout.
Photograph

Correspondents' Hut near Road

Date: 1942
Description: Correspondents' hut from across the main road, Port Moresby, New Guinea. Photograph taken between October and December, 1942.
Photograph

Loading Equipment at Pongani Beach

Date: 1942
Description: Lacking other equipment on the beach, native canoes were pressed into service to transfer equipment to larger boats.
Photograph

Sigurd Olson Duck Hunting

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson duck hunting from a canoe.
Photograph

Sigurd Olson

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe.
Photograph

"God Damn Hitler"

Date: 1942
Description: Car in a parade carrying a sign that reads "Let us pray...God damn Hitler." A large crowd watches the parade from bleachers along the side of the road. The...
Print

Season's Greetings

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter...
Photograph

Silver Street in Hurley by Daylight

Date: 1942
Description: View up Silver Street in Hurley.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942

Date: 1942
Description: Views of two different bike hosteling trips to Pine Bluff (Dane County) and Lake Mills (Jefferson County), sponsored by Neighborhood House, with girls rest...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942 Pine Bluff Trip

Date: 1942
Description: Four participants (Mary Lou Ciulla, Annie Gambino, Bessie Parisi, and Vita Valenza) of a bike hosteling trip sponsored by Neighborhood House, resting on a ...
Photograph

New Guinea Coast

Date: 1942
Description: View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Mendota, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows a paper city laid out in 1836 on the Wisconsin River, now the site of Wyalusing State Park, Grant County. The upper right corner includes a ...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Milwaukee : Representing Parts of Sections 32 and 33 as Divided into Lots

Date: 1942
Description: This photostat map shows roads, ferry, impassible marsh land, the Menominee River, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Mary Griggs (Burke) Ascending Boathouse Deck

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is wearing a one-piece bathing suit as she climbs out of Lake Namakagon onto the Forest Lodge boathouse deck while her dachshund awaits...
Postcard

Arrowhead Bridge

Date: 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "Arrowhead Bridge, Duluth-Superior Harbor. The bridge connected Superior, Wisconsin, with Duluth, Minnesota, over the St. Louis River....

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