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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Cover for the 1956 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted are some white flowers with green leaves, a lake, and some birds flying in t... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | High school. Caption reads: "High School, Bloomington Wis." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View of the Signal Oak taken from the original, which was the first in a series of Heritage Prints. The idea for the series was conceived by the First Nati... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the kitchen at "Little Norway." Log building with a turf roof. Caption reads: "The Kitchen - Little Norway - Mt. Horeb, Wis." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior of three-story building on corner. Trees are along the sidewalk on the right, and vines are growing on the facade of the building. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in backyard of her home on Farwell Avenue. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Lewis, LuRay, Nellie and Bernard Arms arrive at Devil's Lake in a maroon DeSoto convertible automobile. This was the day after Lewis and LuRay's wedding. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms sits on the trunk of a 1949 convertible (DeSoto?) automobile, strumming a guitar. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Six Native American boys and teenagers take part in an archery competition. They are holding their bows and carrying arrows in a bag on their backs. Riley ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across tall grass towards two guest cottages at Richard's Mountain View. Caption reads: "Richards Mountain View Cottages on Lake Holcombe." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The official site marker in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society Building. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Front doorway to the main lodge which is built of horizontal chinked-logs with stone entrance steps; two stone chimneys on a cedar shake roof. Striped awni... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are walking over the Brule River on a wood bridge with iron railings. Three men and one woman are walking with... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Three boys lawn bowling on the bowling green next to Lake Namakagon; the Forest Lodge Boathouse and Champagne Island are in the background. |
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