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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Gettysburg battlefield showing trees and a stump. Handwritten on reverse, "On the right of our line." This is probably a reference to the te... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mouth of Chapel Gorge Beach showing a canoe at the shore. |
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| Description: | Devil's Lake vicinity; Boulders on top of cliff, at foot of Devil's Doorway; man on the left. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Loading an airplane with calcium arsenate in order to spray for the hemlock looper pest in Peninsula State Park. This is believed to be the first such use ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of trees on a snowy hill along University Drive. There is a building at the top of the hill obscured by trees. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Field of shocked hemp with stock pile, and the J. Leroy Farmer Hemp Mill in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire. |
| Date: | 06 05 1989 |
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| Description: | People costumed as Smokey The Bear and Woodsy Owl play outdoors with children as a forest service worker looks on. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a wide path through trees in the spring or summer. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the falls. There are three men at the top of the falls. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | River with distant hills behind a town. An island is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on footbridge in a forested area in Durwards Glen. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "mount" and the wide river before it and behind it. Houses and smokestacks can be seen in the far distance. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bow in the river, and a homestead on the shore, with a two-story house and a barn. Two wagons are close to the barn in the lower left co... |
| Date: | 03 24 1913 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge. Trees are in the foreground, with Lake Mendota and the far shoreline in the distance. Original caption reads: "Rustic Bridge on ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Willow River Falls. Text at right reads: "Published by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn. Willow River Falls Near Hudeson, Wis." |
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