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Sugar Bowl

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Description: Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos...
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Milwaukee Road Train Wreck

Date: 01 11 1948
Description: The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling...
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Leroy Burlingame and Dan the Horse

Date: 1895
Description: Leroy J. Burlingame, the photographer's father-in-law, and his horse Dan standing outdoors near trees.
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Gibraltar Rock

Date: 1909
Description: Side view of a woman sitting on a rock ledge on the face of Gibraltar Rock bluff. Hills, fields and the Wisconsin River are visible far below in the backgr...
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Festival Grounds Camping Area

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: The Sound Storm music festival site as seen from the camping area. Attendees mill around many tents, campers and automobiles. In the far background a large...
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Couple on Hill

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A couple take a break from the crowded audience to embrace on the edge of a steep ditch with part of the Sound Storm festival scaffolding visible behind th...
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Men around Campfire

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of three men crowd around a campfire before much of the festival audience arrives. A large pile of firewood is on the left next to them. In the bac...
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Group in front of Large Tent

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of young audience members crowd around the front of a large tent (possibly the "bummer tent" for people going through bad drug experiences) at the ...
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Men around Campfire

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of young men crowd around a campfire in the Sound Stage campground. In the background is a truck and a station wagon near men who appear to be sett...
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African-Americans In Camp Area

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A crowd of African-American men standing and sitting in the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival before most of the audience arrives.
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Woman Making Peace Signs

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A smiling woman in a long pattered dress stands in the road as crowded cars slowly roll past, making a peace sign with her hands for a captive audience.
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Woman Standing in Road near Campers

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A smiling woman in a long pattered dress stands in the road next to a crowded camper, making a peace sign with her hands for a captive audience.
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Couple Stand near Parked Cars

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A couple stand near a group of parked cars away from the audience, including a Pontiac and a Plymouth. Behind them is a crowd of men standing in front of a...
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Man Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus...
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Two Young Women Smoking in Campground

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Two young female audience members, one wearing a paisley print dress, the other wearing an American flag print dress, sit in the camping area smoking marij...
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Crew Constructing Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A crew works with plywood during construction of the food stalls at the Sound Storm music festival.
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Workers Building Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Four workers amid construction of food stalls out of plywood a day or two before the beginning of the Sound Storm music festival.
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Workers Constructing Plywood Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of three young workers amid construction of plywood stalls. There is a station wagon in the background. A few tents are set up on the hill in the b...
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Man and Boy on High Rock

Date: 
Description: An Indian man and boy in native garb stand on High Rock with the Wisconsin River in the background. The man is pointing towards the left and holding a bow ...
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Strikers in Cucumber Field

Date: 1967
Description: A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca...

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