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Vieau Trading Post

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Description: Vieau trading post.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Menomonie Indian Reservation

Date: 1920
Description: Sign for the toll road at Big Smoky Falls on the Wolf River. The sign reads: "Big Smoky Falls of the Wolf River. Many years ago before 1925 there was no ro...
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Eleazer William's House's First Site at Little Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: A woman stands in a marsh near the site of Eleazer William's first house.
Postcard

Old Stone Tower and House

Date: 1898
Description: Caption reads: "Old Stone Tower and House, Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Water and a marshy area are in the foreground.
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Long Tail Lighthouse

Date: 1905
Description: Long Tail Lighthouse and surrounding buildings.
Postcard

Tank Cottage

Date: 1907
Description: View across water toward the Tank Cottage. Caption reads: "The Historic Tank Cottage — over 100 years old — Green Bay, Wis."
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Wausau Memorial Hospital

Date: 1945
Description: View of the Wausau Memorial Hospital, with the Wisconsin River in the foreground.
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White Pine Blister Rust Eradication Crew

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Description: Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are...
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Pauqette Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Pierre Pauquette monument located at the easterm terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoluti...
Postcard

Town Across Lake

Date: 1905
Description: View of town behind a prairie field and a lake. Caption reads: "Packwaukee, Wis."
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Mill Pond

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Description: A peaceful view of a pond and mill, featuring a small dog sitting in a boat, which rests on the shore.
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Boating at Manasquan Beach

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Description: Elevated view of a group of children, infants, and adults sitting in rowboats in the water at Manasquan Beach. In the background are rows of dwellings, and...
Map or Atlas

Part of Town of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 10 19 1836
Description: This 1836 manuscript map shows the sections, windfalls, marshes, streams, prairies, acreages, and former mouth of the Pike River in what is now the eastern...
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Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
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Draining Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
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Men in Plowed Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee Bay Showing the Site of the Proposed Harbor

Date: 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows marshlands, rivers, creeks, a quarry, and a few roads.
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Hunters on the Pond

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards a group of seven men posing on a dock in front of a small hunting shack in the middle of a marsh. Ducks hang on stringers attache...
Map or Atlas

Tracing of the Original Map Showing the Grignon Claim at Portage

Date: 1800
Description: This map is pencil on tracing paper and shows marshes, the Wisconsin River, Indian trails, and Indian boundary line. The upper left corner reads: "Let sect...

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