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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women sit on the ground as they enjoy a picnic, eating and drinking. A dog is lying on the picnic blanket. An automobile with a flag mou... |
| Date: | 02 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jim Taylor, outdoor writer for the "Wisconsin State Journal." |
| Date: | 05 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Dorothy L. Day and Ruth E. Van Tassel show off their form as archers. They and their husbands are members of the Blackhawk Archery Club. |
| Date: | 05 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Timmons and D'Arcy T. Maas ride horses while wearing equestrian outfits. |
| Date: | 05 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Hariett Narowetz and Irene L. Marsh pull their golf bags across the golf course. |
| Date: | 05 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Jean Whiffen and Marilyn Tormey pose for a portrait in a sailboat. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Group of girls in jackets, sitting or kneeling, perhaps illuminated by a campfire; some are holding cups. This image is from a hosteling scrapbook kept by ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The iceboat was built by the Ranke boys. There are about forty-nine people posing in front of the boat. Almost everyone is wearing ice skates. Names: Fred ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Flambeau River below the flowage dam. One man is standing in the river. A shack is visible... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This 1938 tourist map of Douglas County, Wisconsin, identifies game refuges, fishing locations, and other outdoor recreation opportunities in the county. A... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | An International Scout hauling a camper is parked next to a body of water. A man is fishing while a woman looks on from the banks of the water. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View towards lake and mountain with an International Scout hauling a camper parked next to the shoreline. A man, woman, and three children are gathered beh... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across water of a man in the driver's seat of an International Scout parked in the water at the shoreline of a lake. On the left posing at the shoreli... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Small group of women with a leader in wooded area on a trail engaged in nature study. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | This map is intended for tourists of La Crosse. The cover features images of farms and natural land and reads: "friends are but strangers... we have yet to... |
| Date: | 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Water barrel fight: two groups with dueling hoses suspend a barrel in air. Children and adults look on with excitment. |
| Date: | 08 1996 |
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| Description: | Shirley Widmer biking on McArthur Road. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dr. Smith's brother-in- law, Franklin E. Bump, and three of his children, Franklin E. Jr., Warner, and Millard Bump, standing in front of a tent in th... |
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