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Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
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Horse-Drawn Mower on Park or Estate Grounds

Date: 1899
Description: A male grounds keeper is driving a horse-drawn mower down a path on a park or estate grounds. Another man is leaning against a slender tree. Both men are w...
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Two Boys, a Dog, and a McCormick Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two boys are standing at the side of a road near a lake with a dog. One boy is watching a man driving a horse-drawn McCormick binder, while the other boy i...
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Halavo Seaplane Base

Date: 1943
Description: Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base...
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi...
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Waterfront Marketplace

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a number of people unloading goods from boats arriving at a waterfront marketplace. Huts and various other buildings are visible on the hi...
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Moore's Wharf

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Description: View of Moore's Wharf with shipments standing on it, including pens with livestock.
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Pier at Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek Harbor as a boat approaches the pier and warehouse. In the foreground are houses with outbuildings, gardens and a small orchard...
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High Bridge

Date: 1922
Description: View from shoreline of bridge over the Wisconsin River. In the left lower foreground is a shed, and a rowboat. On the opposite shoreline are farms and fiel...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

Date: 
Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

Date: 
Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
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Veith's Park Subdivision

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of Vieth's Park subdivision on the north shore of Lake Mendota.
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Man with Binder on Horse-Drawn Transport Truck

Date: 1900
Description: A man is riding a binder on a horse-drawn transport truck on a road near a body of water. There is a boat on the river.
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1420 Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Man standing on 1420 axial-flow combine near a pond or lake, near another man sitting in a boat holding a fishing pole.
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Shipping Dock Unloading Binder from Ship

Date: 1900
Description: View down dock towards men unloading a binder on the gangway of a ship docked on the left. A woman is standing on the deck of the ship.
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Man Driving Continuous Track Tractor down Wooden Ramp

Date: 08 08 1927
Description: View along shoreline towards a man driving a continuous track tractor down a steep ramp over water from a boat onto the shoreline. Men are standing on the ...
Photograph

Planting Pike

Date: 1935
Description: Two unidentified men, working from a boat or raft, are dumping the contents of milk cans into the waters of a lake. There are small cottages on the shore i...
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Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 09 02 1966
Description: The caption on the reverse of this print explains: "Indians harvesting wild rice. Man poles rice boat while wife uses cedar ricing sticks and strips grain ...
Postcard

Sister Bay, near Sturgeon Bay

Date: 
Description: Color postcard view towards the shoreline, with a pier and three boats moored to it. On the far right is a portion of what may be a boathouse. There are bu...
Photograph

TD-24 — Pipe Lines

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Pipe Lines." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 superior pipe boom owned by H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, O...

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