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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A fishing settlement. Small buildings and boats line a bay, with sand and a piece of driftwood in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of island with houses and boathouses and boats along the shoreline. Industrial buildings are in the background, and a sailboat is on the wate... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Shoreline of Lake Michigan. This is mainly a commercial fishing community, and some of the Lake Michigan ferry boats dock here. A pole with a lifesaving ri... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a stylized sun rising over the ocean, advertising spring break vacations to Nassau for University of Wisconsin faculty and students. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Jones Island, with some houses near the water and an industrial area across the river. On the right are a number of railroad tracks next t... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Man inspecting fish hung up to dry in a yard on Jones Island. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of bay shoreline, with dwellings along the bank. A few boats are in the river. In the background is a factory with a smokestack and railroad ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | A fish shop made of several small, interconnected buildings. Signs for fresh or smoked fish are on several parts of the shop. In the background is a railr... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard and railroads cars on Jones Island. On the right is a large derrick or crane, and in the background are a number of freighte... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Men working near large dredge on Jones Island. Large piles of material are on the ground below the dredge. There is a ship on the right. In the distance a... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Signs for Kingsbury Beer and politicians are in the window of a storefront. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Nelson sits in a canoe and looks out over the water around the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, Dave Obey, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, walk along a beach with a park ranger during a tour of the Apostle Islands. ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Prairie du Chien showing the Mississippi River in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thorstein Veblen's camp, consisting of a building and a tent. Probably on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thorstein Veblen sitting on a beach, probably at Washington Island, surrounded by driftwood. There is a young child on the beach on the right. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
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