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Skiing near Greenbush

Date: 1951
Description: Winter scene with skiers getting ready to push off, with bundled-up observers looking on in the foreground.
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Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks with a color illustration of a truck driver sitting in an easy chair with his feet propped up under the text "c...
Photograph

Uncle Walter Arms and Elinora

Date: 1951
Description: Elinora (mother of Lewis Arms, Jr.) stands in the snow and shoots a rifle, while Walter Arms, uncle of Lewis Arms, looks on.
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Playing Roy Rogers

Date: 1951
Description: Three boys are dressed in cowboy hats, gloves, boots, and t-shirts featuring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger. One boy is holding a toy pistol on the other...
Photograph

Filming a Scene for "The African Queen"

Date: 1951
Description: Crew, in foreground, filming a scene for the 1951 film "The African Queen." Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are in a boat with a microphone over thei...
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First Fishing

Date: 1951
Description: First fishing near Vilas Park on Murphy's Creek (now known as Wingra Creek.) Many people are set up to fish on both sides of the tree-lined banks.

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