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| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin state official historical marker titled 'Forest Restoration, The Beginning.' The text reads: "This place on Trout Lake was selected by E.M. G... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progres... |
| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| Description: | Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A view of the Lake Tomahawk ranger station taken about 1914 when the buildings were new. Shows the ranger's residence, water tower, the barn for horses wit... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery. |
| Date: | 01 31 1950 |
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| Description: | In this large indoor group portrait, C.L. (Neal) Harrington is in the second row, second from the right. The men are attending an operational meeting for t... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of plants supported with stakes in a field. There is a water tower in the background on top of a hill on the right. People are worki... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | R-120 truck with pickup body parked outdoors. A man is loading or unloading the truck in front of the open door. Above the door is a sign that reads: "Toll... |
| Date: | 07 05 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a floral delivery truck. The driver is looking back towards men loading plants into the back of the truck. The sig... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Described on the reverse of the print as, "Four to five year old evergreen trees," young trees grow in neat rows beneath overhead irrigation pipes. The gr... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Working at a counter, an unidentified man ties twine around a burlap-wrapped bundle of small everygreen trees while another man looks on. A typed caption... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are pushing an implement between guide ropes at the Central (now Griffith) State Nursery. The description on the reverse of the photograph explains... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Two nursery employees, Florance Dohm and Angeline Magnasco, examining a blooming plant among the tables full of blooming lilies ready for delivery inside a... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse. |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the nursery at Trout Lake. In the center are three men and a dog standing among seedlings in the nursery. There is a water tower and two ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the nursery. Men are standing among the plantings. The barn is on the right. |
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| Description: | A man is standing outdoors next to a sign that reads: "Northern State Forest, State Forest Headquarters, District Forest Ranger, State Forest Nursery. Wisc... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a coat, necktie and cap is standing at the top of wood and slab stone steps with rustic railing at an entrance to the lodge at Trout Lake. A ... |
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