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| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
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| Description: | Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
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| Description: | A group of seventeen young people of varying ages posing outside against a hill with bicycles and a set of rowing oars. |
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| Description: | View from lake of Camp Idyle Wyld. A two-story wet boathouse, a windmill, and several cabins are visible along the shoreline. Caption reads: "View of Camp ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of a tug boat docked on frozen Lake Minnetonka. The boat was powered by an International PD-80 power unit and bears signage reading "Priscilla" and ".... |
| Date: | 08 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A boat travels up the Fox River. In the background are a canal and locks and factory smokestacks. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from water of vacation cabins and boats along lake shoreline of Turtle Flowage. The roof of the building on the right says: "Al's Place / Lunches — Ca... |
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| Description: | Border Lakes Outfitting Company, Sigurd Olson's summer business that provided guides and equipment for wilderness vacations. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men driving in an automobile past a pond or bayou. There appear to be two small boats on the shoreline, and trees are rising out of the water in the ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cabins on shoreline of Upper Eau Claire Lake at Lyndale Bay Resort. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cabins around clearing in the woods at Lyndale Bay Resort on Upper Eau Claire Lake. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View from water of two men sitting on a bench near the shoreline of Upper Eau Claire Lake. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near cabins looking at Upper Eau Claire Lake. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Canoes and lawn chairs at the shore of Upper Eau Claire Lake. Caption reads: "Big Eau Claire Lake From Taylors Cabins, Drummond, Wis." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from water of a boy sitting on the back of a wooden boat with his feet on a pier. He is holding a dog which is standing on the dock. There is a small ... |
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