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| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | President Jimmy Carter stands in the open rear passenger door of a car to wave to a crowd of spectators during a visit to Congressman David R. Obey's homet... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A group of pro-life demonstrators holding protest signs assembled to greet President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Wausau. The group is confined behind ba... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | President Jimmy Carter's visit meant extra duty for the local police force. An elevated sign in the background reads "Newman High School, Welcome, Peace Pr... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A winter view of a specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin. The tree is standing next to the st... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A towering white ash, devoid of leaves, standing along the sidewalk in front of a two-story brick Norman revival house with a large chimney. There is a du... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | The sun is peeking through the clouds and trees. Snow covers an open field and in the distance is a tree covered hill. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A barn and silo, on a snow covered farm along Highway 78, between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. The farmhouse is behind the barn. A barbed wire fence lines th... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boathouses floating on the water at piers along the shore of the Black River. Some of the boathouses have been owned by many generations o... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Geese and ducks on the shoreline and in the water, seen through trees. A paved road is in the foreground, and the far shoreline is wooded. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Silhouette of a young boy playing on a tree swing on a hill. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A man is lifting a snow fence in ankle deep snow. In the background is a tree covered hill. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two cars are trapped in a large snowdrift. Two people can be seen. One car has its hood up and a truck with ladders strapped to a roof rack may be jump sta... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Night view of the Milton College Main Hall in fog, framed by two lampposts. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Four boys in swimsuits are laughing and smiling as they walk down a road. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Clinton Junior High School Band playing in front of a feed mill. |
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