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Old Man and Windsor Billboard

Date: 1980
Description: An elderly man is sitting in the grass by a Windsor Canadian Whiskey billboard.
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Children at Camp McCoy

Date: 1980
Description: Cuban refugees at Camp McCoy. Three children standing with their arms around each others shoulders. Two wear Woody Woodpecker t-shirts, the other wears a D...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Freshly harvested cranberries float on the top of a flooded cranberry marsh. The berries are gathered and fed onto a conveyor belt that dumps the berries i...
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Cranberry Gathering

Date: 1980
Description: Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh.
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Raking Cranberries

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Congressman David Obey and His Son Craig

Date: 1980
Description: Congressman David Obey and his son Craig have a private talk, seated in a wooded area.
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Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1980
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, owner of Black Point Estate, poses seated in a green wicker chair on the porch of the main house. Standing behind her on the left an...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage at Black Point

Date: 1980
Description: View from lawn of a man holding the harness of a team of two horses hitched to an open carriage on the brick drive at Black Point. A large group looks on f...
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Prince Philip Planting an Elm

Date: 1980
Description: University of Wisconsin professor of plant pathology and forestry Eugene B. Smalley (1926-2002), right, is watching as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is...
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Trading Post Oak

Date: 1980
Description: View down hill towards a woman standing with her arms outstretched and with her back against the trunk of a tall red oak near Lake Mendota. A car is sittin...
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Bascom Hill Elms

Date: 1980
Description: Tall, spreading elms line the sidewalks leading up the mall to Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Van Vleck Hall is to the left. St...
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White Pine

Date: 1980
Description: Two unidentified men, each standing with one hand resting against the enormous trunk of a mature white pine and looking upward. There are other trees in th...
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Pride o-th' North

Date: 1980
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Pride o-th' North. Year Round Resort. St. Germain, WI 54558. Phone 715-542-3793. Pretty girls in colorful togs brighten this winter...

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