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| Description: | View of an apiary that has been destroyed by a bear. Trees and stumps in background. Writing on back reads: "What a bear did to Outcelt's yard." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi... |
| Date: | 10 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Chippewa woman standing outdoors stirring one of three pots suspended over an open fire. |
| Date: | 08 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A Grizzly bear is sticking its nose out between the steel bars of a cage at Vilas Park Zoo. |
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| Description: | View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h... |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting outside of a cabin at a hunter's camp. A dog is curled up at their feet. A dead bear and several dead deer are hung up behind them on p... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A mother bear, followed by her two cubs, walking on all fours across a clearing, possibly a road, with a wooded area in the background. The postcard is tit... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A black bear cub holding onto tree limbs while climbing a white pine sapling. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | View of polar bears in their habitat at the Vilas Park (Henry Vilas) Zoo. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographic postcard described on the reverse: "A black bear in the Wisconsin north woods." |
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| Description: | View towards a black bear walking up a road. Text reads: "Out for a Stroll, Greetings from Mercer, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A black bear is approaching the front of the parked 1935 Oldsmobile sedan owned by the photographer. There are conifer trees in the background. The photogr... |
| Date: | 08 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption from photocopy of newspaper article reads: "What with Will Rogers suggesting that Matanuska colonists need a polo team, maybe you have been wonderi... |
| Date: | 08 02 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pakonen, Iron Mountain, Mich., shown with [sic] in their cottage yard with the skin of a bear Pakonen and anot... |
| Date: | 08 02 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Mrs. Pakonen holding the font[sic] paw of the bear, which weighed about 400 pounds. Pakonen said its hide was nice[sic]. It's again... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A Polar Bear is sprawling on the rock foundation of its enclosure. |
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