Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are... |
Date: | 05 12 1948 |
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Description: | Group portrait of fifteen members of the Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation, sponsors of an anti-pollution meeting to prohibit dumping of sewage ... |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | Gaylord Nelson participates in a canoe trip down the Namekagon River in an effort to protect the river under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Nelson sits in a canoe and looks out over the water around the Apostle Islands. |
Date: | 05 1970 |
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Description: | The front page of "The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter" announcing Earth Day 1970, with the headline: "Mass Movement Begins." |
Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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Description: | Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo... |
Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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Description: | Two people walk near a large rock formation in a wooded area with a picnic table in the foreground. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park loca... |
Date: | 07 1976 |
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Description: | Diagram showing environmental means by which humans can be exposed to radiation from nuclear power plants. |
Date: | 04 1970 |
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Description: | Acting on the suggestion of his mentor Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin congressman David R. Obey participated (here at a gym) at the first Earth Day even... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Editorial cartoon depicting Rodin's "The Thinker" wearing a gas mask. The figure is surrounded by pollution, with a factory spewing smoke in the background... |
Date: | 08 27 1959 |
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Description: | A new 4-cent postage stamp honors the American soil conservation effort by showing various phases of soil conservation. Shown (L-R) are: Russell Silverwood... |
Date: | 07 1997 |
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Description: | Bill Voelker, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife Educator and Naturalist, poses near DNR building located between Mayville and Horicon. |
Date: | 05 28 1964 |
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Description: | Sunlight spotlights a prairie tract where more than 100 members of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum picnicked and toured the area in gr... |
Date: | 08 13 1965 |
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Description: | H.O. Lord, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District chief engineer, outlining the existing sewerage district on a map. Lord is trying to educate the public c... |
Date: | 02 1964 |
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Description: | Group portrait of four men, taken at the Club Chanticleer, holding up a banner depicting ducks in a marsh. There is a "Support Ducks Unlimited" poster in t... |
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Description: | A person is standing in the middle of a field covered with downed tree branches holding a red balloon to guide the airplane flying towards him. The plane i... |
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Description: | Four men of the Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources are wearing hard hats and standing next to a truck as they look over papers. The Wisconsin DNR ... |
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