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Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality

Date: 09 05 1913
Description: Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in...
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Mauston

Date: 1905
Description: View across fields toward the town. Caption reads: "Birdseye[sic] view of Mauston, Wis."
Photograph

Interstate at Camp Douglas

Date: 1979
Description: Aerial view of Interstate I-90/94 at Camp Douglas, looking northwest.
Photograph

Automobile Stuck in Mud

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Description: Men with a tractor attempt to pull out a car stuck in the mud on an early road.
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Target Rock

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Description: View of a large rock formation. There is a fence in the foreground.
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Truck Stuck in the Mud

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Description: A man with a tractor attempts to pull a truck out of deep mud. Two men stand on the bed of the truck, and another man sits on the front of the tractor. The...
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G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
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Ocean Spray Cranberries Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Ocean Spray brand of cranberries, with a can of jellied cranberry sauce and a serving dish with the sauce retaining the shape of its can ...
Postcard

Long Bluff

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Description: Photographic postcard elevated view over field of Long Bluff. Trees and a watchtower are on top of the bluff. In the lower left corner is a long building w...
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 1 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
Manuscript

Walter Brundage

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of a description of the resettlement of Walter Brundage from poor farmland owned by Dr. Roach to land better suited to agriculture owned by Pat Glea...
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Old Brundage Farm in Site I

Date: 1935
Description: View of the dilapidated farm from which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
Photograph

New Brundage Farm

Date: 1935
Description: View of the farm to which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
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Visitors at Camp Douglas

Date: 1887
Description: A group of visitors to Camp Douglas are gathered at the edge of an open field, perhaps observing military exercises. Several carry umbrellas.
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Camp Douglas Looking North

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Description: Exterior view identified as Camp Douglas from the south looking north. Elevated view of a town with a railroad track and an oncoming train in the center ...
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Camp Petenwell CCC Dam

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Description: The Civilian Conservation Corps dam built at Camp Petenwell near Necedah.
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Camp Petenwell Workers and Trucks

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Description: Group of men posing in a field. There are two trucks parked behind the group, and axes are propped up in the foreground.
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Steam Tractor

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Description: Side view of left side of steam tractor. A man holding either a pipe or an oil can is leaning on the back of the tractor just behind the seat. A dog sits o...

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