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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol building and surrounding Madison area. Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Frank Lloyd-Wright-dsigned Unitarian Church under construction and the Veteran's Administration Hospital, also under construction, to th... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Madison isthmus looking north. Caption reads: "Madison Wisconsin — Between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across water towrads the Roger Williams Inn. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Richard Quinney and Peggy (?) pose for a snapshot in a rowboat on a lake. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | This map of east central Wisconsin around Lake Winnebago and the southern portion of Green Bay shows the moraines, drumlins, eskers, sand dunes, old beach ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A map from the Wisconsin identifying the locations airports and other landing facilities in the state. On the opposite side the map includes an alphabetica... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | This road map shows federal, state and county roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, eastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Includes building index and "To Help You Locate Buildings" text. Index includes campus buildings and points of interest. Aerial view on verso. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly Benton C. Black, delivering films to Campo Fiesta at Trout Lake. The delivery is being made in a Seabee seaplane by the Amphibious Motion P... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | This map of Madison is also a brochure of activities for vacationers in the area. The map includes indexes and some points of interest are shown pictoriall... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight. The marker text reads: "FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A smiling Neal Harrington is handing a box to another man. There are other people in the background and flanking Neal. They are in a state forest or park w... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town, showing all of Lake Metonga in the background. Caption reads: "Greetings from Crandon, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Island City surrounded by the waters of Beaver Dam Lake, and by a vacation and recreation area that includes some fifty lakes within a r... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of Upper Nemahbin Lake, with parked cars at the base of a hill in the foreground, and people boating and swimming. Ca... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fall color on Yellow Birch Lake on the Eagle Chain of Lakes. There is a boathouse on shoreline at the right obscured by trees. |
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