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| Description: | Colorized view of Brown's Lake. Buildings on the far shoreline are obscured by trees. Caption reads: "Brown's Lake, Wis." |
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| Description: | Color reproduction of a painting of a river in the mountains. Two people are standing near the river. Caption reads: "Greetings from Burlington, Wis. A Sum... |
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| Description: | Please listen to the great owl Please listen to the education Please learn how to save hard things for the easy way |
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| Description: | The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed eight round, ten long For his design, the strengthened forest capriciously outgrew them all... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a group of soldiers from the mapping section of the 310th United States Engineer Corps posing with horses and sleighs. In the back... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking toward the Pinega River, showing the stairs and path to its shoreline, as well as a stacks of logs piled up along the shore. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Stonefield Village, with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "Stonefield, Cassville, Wis." |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an elevated view of Stonefield Village with the Mississippi River in the background and railroad tracks in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Copper Falls on the Bad River. Four people, one man and three women, are posing on rocks at the top of the falls. Surrounding burned-over ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ... |
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| Description: | Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Girls of a visiting ballet company, in costume, posed in a rocky wooded glen along a stream. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin River from Bogus Bluff. There is a tree in the foreground and sandbars in the river. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two men and two women visit sit on a small, rocky island or natural bridge near water. Plants and trees are on shoreline behind them. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated scenic view of the Wisconsin River with rock formations along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from hill of Jordan Lake. Two people are fishing in a rowboat below, and the wooded far shoreline is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The Ravenswood beach on the Wisconsin River. A man is piloting an excursion boat as it is pulling away from the shoreline. Two rowboats are pulled up on th... |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin River, with a beach on the left. In the distance is a tree-covered hill. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View across Wisconsin River of tree-covered bluffs along the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Native American tour guide standing on a rock formation. He is wearing a headdress and decorated vest and white shirt, and is holding a megaphone and point... |
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