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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A farmer and a young boy ride a tractor through a field reaping oats. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the parlor of Richards' Octagon House. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the spiral staircase inside Richards' Octagon House. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of stones in a quarry used by the Mormons in the settlement formerly known as Voree. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Virginia Hess posing with a muskellunge near the fish scale at Ross Teal Lake Lodge. Virginia Hess was a member of the Hess Oil Co. family, was from Chicag... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across river towards the tunnel leading to the bottom of the shot tower shaft at Tower Hill State Park. There is a rustic bridge on the right leading ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The living room with a fireplace in the Cornish miner's cottage on Shake Rag Street called Trelawny. The cottage was restored under the ownership of Robert... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A corner desk and bookshelf in the Cornish miner's cottage on Shake Rag Street called Trelawny. The cottage was restored under the ownership of Robert M. N... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin State College. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Avenue entrance to the Kennedy Manor apartments. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Thiensville Mill as seen from the waterfront. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A view of the split lath boards, which are hung between wall beams to apply plaster to create the interior wall, inside of the Doty house. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A detailed view of the split lath boards, thin boards nailed to the walls of a house so that plaster may be applied to create the interior wall, in the Dot... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Smokey Bear cub with Judy Bell in front of a fire-prevention poster featuring the character for whom the young bear was named. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Smokey Bear cub with a fire-prevention poster bearing his namesake. The poster has three bears, and the text reads: "Please Folks, be extra careful this ye... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Smokey Bear cub and his handler, Homer C. Pickens, pose by a Piper Aircraft Corporation airplane named in Smokey's honor prior to flying to Washington, D.C... |
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