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Spring Spraying

Date: 1952
Description: Farmer spraying a fruit tree in blossom.
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Daily Limit

Date: 1952
Description: Two unidentified hunters with recently killed Ruffed Grouse in the St. Croix River area.
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Lonely Lighthouse

Date: 1952
Description: Rawley Point Lighthouse, located in the Point Beach State Forest. It is 111 feet tall.
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Perrot State Park

Date: 1952
Description: View of Perrot State Park from the opposite shore of the Mississippi river.
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First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...
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Industrial Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: Solvay Coke and Gas Company with railroad train and tracks, smoke billowing upward. The company was opened in 1906 and closed in 1983.
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Capitol Tulips

Date: 1952
Description: The 4th Wisconsin State Capitol, built in 1906-1917. In the foreground is a large, round bed with a display of tulips.
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Main Lodge at Forest Lodge

Date: 1952
Description: The back and side of the main lodge at Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon. The lodge was re-built in 1914-15 and remodeled in 1928-29. It is a single-story hor...
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Mary Livingston Griggs and Daughter Mary Griggs

Date: 1952
Description: Mary Griggs and her daughter Mary are standing outside of the Forest Lodge guesthouse in a phlox flower garden. Both Marys are wearing white dresses. A co...
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.
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Harbor Scene

Date: 1952
Description: Text on front reads: "Harbor Scene, Racine Wisconsin." A large ship is docked in Racine's harbor, with another ship and harbor facilities.
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North Point Lighthouse

Date: 1952
Description: Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis.", "North Point Lighthouse". This is actually the Wind Point Lighthouse on Wind Point, located on the north end of Racine...
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Hardscrabble Ski Area

Date: 1952
Description: Text on front reads: "Hardscrabble Ski Area...Rice Lake, Wis." Text on reverse, "Hardscrabble, Inc. Rice Lake, Wis. The Cadillac of ski areas . . . ask the...
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Walter W. Eiler, Realtor and Insurance

Date: 1952
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Walter W. Eiler. Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Realtor - Insurance. 'Recreational Real Estate in Northern Wisconsin." A storefront with a...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty in Korea

Date: 1952
Description: Text on back of photograph reads: "Esther Van Wagoner Tufty interviewing four members of a congressional delegation fact-finding mission during Korean War ...
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin Sending Letter to Santa

Date: 1952
Description: A man stands on an airplane stair cart, holding a child in a snowsuit up to a man in the cockpit of an airplane. The child is holding a large envelope. Cap...

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