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| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Windsled used to transport passengers and goods between Madeline Island and Bayfield. This image was in Ross' book, "La Pointe: Village Outpost". |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking northeast from a point over the east end of Middleton, showing the west end of Lake Mendota (right mid-ground). Fox Bluff juts into the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Air View of Bob Cammack's Treeland Pines Resort; Lake Chippewa, Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa (The Flowage), Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of La Crosse, with Onalaska in the background. The highway is U.S. Highway 53 and the State Highway 35. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of "the island" with the Marathon Corporation paper mills. The Fox River flowing out of Lake Winnebago separates the two cities, Neenah and Men... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View looking west from Eagle Bluff toward Nicolet Bay, the Strawberry Islands, and Chambers Island. Three people are sitting on the stone wall of the overl... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Lighthouse on Outer Island of the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Harbor area of Jones Island and garbage disposal plant, Stratton Grain Co., and more. |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited through the Madison Youth Council helped plant trees and shrubs on the Vilas Park island. |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 07 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, followed by Tony Lovink, at the beginning of their "grand portage." A large lake and islands are in the background. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the island of Cuba taken from a small plane. Part of the plane with a Cuban flag painted on it is in the frame, and the island with many bui... |
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