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Everetta and Cary Bass

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, helping her brother Cary put on a silk top hat. She is holding a doll and they are standing outside near a fire...
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Two Men Boxing

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Description: Two men take a boxing pose outside of a cabin near a woodpile. In addition, there are several onlookers.
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Children Playing on Seesaw

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Description: Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood.
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Wisconsin Dells With Excursion Boat

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Description: Elevated panoramic view of the Wisconsin River shoreline in the Wisconsin Dells. There is an excursion boat, The Dell Queen, visible in the lower le...
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Convict Camp

Date: 1920
Description: A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels.
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Making Maple Syrup

Date: 04 1957
Description: LuRay Arms and Otis Arms tending a fire while making maple syrup outdoors.
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The Arms Men Making Maple Syrup

Date: 04 1957
Description: Three men from the Arms family making maple syrup outdoors. From left to right are: Lewis, Bernard, and Otis Arms.
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Cooking Maple Sap

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Description: Two men are cooking maple sap over a wood burning cauldron in a clearing. One man is feeding the fire with logs while the other man is pouring in the sap. ...
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High Dive

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a diver who has launched himself from a high ladder supported by guy wires. The railing around a small pool is visible on...
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Pouring Maple Sap into Vat

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Description: Harvey Blue, standing next to a wood burning fire pit. He is pouring maple sap into a large vat, which is in a forest clearing.
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Filming a Family Eating Lunch

Date: 08 1948
Description: A man films a family as they sit at a picnic table and eat lunch at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
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Boy and Girl Playing in Yard

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Description: View from the shade of a building towards a boy and girl sitting on a pile of dirt playing. There is a small buggy on the left. In the background are a num...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three children, two of them posing standing and one child lying down. One child is wearing what may be a catcher's mask, and the ...
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Boy on a Horse

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Description: View across street towards a boy posing sitting in profile on a horse in front of the building at 13 South First Street, which held the photography studio ...
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Man and Child with a Canoe

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Description: Portrait of a man standing behind a canoe next to a small child sitting on top of it. Behind the canoe is stacked fuelwood and a building.
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Patriotic Parade

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a group of people on a stagecoach patriotically decorated for a parade on a town street.
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Camp Sidney Cohen Family Campout

Date: 02 1959
Description: Two men cooking food wrapped in foil on a grate over a fire outdoors. One man's sleeve has a patch that reads: "Family Camping, MFCA Milwaukee." A child is...
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Deer Friend

Date: 1950
Description: A deer is standing next to a man as he is boiling maple sap over a fire pit in the woods at Blue Farm. Steam and smoke are rising up into the air. On the r...
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Splitting Wood

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Trials of Pioneers Bring Families Closer Together." Original caption reads, in part: "Families are knit more closely...
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Sugar Bush

Date: 1960
Description: Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm.

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