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| 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. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | This map shows trails, roads, creeks, alleged location of George Gardner's trading post, Boulder and Mud Lakes, and a portion of the Wolf River. The map al... |
| 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: | 05 1942 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho... |
| 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." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A figure of Smokey Bear is posed standing with a paw resting on a sign advertising the Wisconsin Conservation Department. Behind him is a sign with his mot... |
| 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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