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| 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: | Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach. |
| 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: | View looking up at the Methodist Episcopal church over tree covered formations on the banks of Arkansaw Creek. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across water towrads the Roger Williams Inn. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a fishing boat in Lake Superior with tourists on board. There is an island on the horizon. Caption reads: "'The Apostle Isla... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view showing shipyards, rivers and roads. |
| 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: | Color photographic postcard of the "C.G. Richter," a ferry operating between mainland Door County and Washington Island in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from dock towards the Washington Island Ferry, "Eyrarbakki." There is a person sitting on a post on the dock. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across lawn looking down from hill towards a body of water, with a far shoreline in the distance. Treetops are further down the hill. There is a man w... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young woman is posing sitting on a boulder on the shoreline along a river rapids. She is holding a walking stick and is wearing a romper. The description... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a boy are posing standing at the edge of the pool at Pewit's Nest. The boy has rolled the legs of his overalls above his knees. There are tal... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "U-4 — Oil Field Preparation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Danciger Drilling & Refining Co., Baton Rouge, ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "TD-18 — Road Building." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-18 owned by W.H. Hinman Co., Wicasset, Maine. Used with Bucyrus... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of people fishing and boating in Washington Park Lagoon. Three boys are fishing with long bamboo poles from the bank on the left, and two boys are in ... |
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