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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: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | Map showing buildings formerly used as Ringling Brothers Circus winter quarters, along with adjoining buildings. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of main street. There is a bridge with a stream flowing under it in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Downtown Ephraim from Peninsula State Park, directly across the bay. |
| 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: | Aerial view of fields near neighborhoods. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the confluence of the Fox River and Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Fox River, near Green Bay. Handwritten locations are marked, including: Site of First Court House, Little Rapids, De Pere. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown and river. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across water towrads the Roger Williams Inn. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A sawmill run on the Menominee Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
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