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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This multi-colored promotional map for recreational activities in the Hayward area includes a graphic of distances from Midwestern cities to Hayward, with ... |
| Date: | 03 1978 |
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| Description: | A family of five are outdoors standing around or sitting on their two snowmobiles as they take a break to drink and eat. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man is leading a group of young women on an educational walk in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. He is pointing upward near a large tree. T... |
| Date: | 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Carl Wettengel, a board member of the rifle club, addressing a room full of parents and youth members inside the clubhouse about the history of the group. ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Den Mother J. E. Maddrell carries a try of cupcakes with den chief assistant John Carrier who has a jug of grapeade. The Cub Scouts are (left to right): To... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Gene Maddrell carries firewood for the fire pit where the scouts are building a fire to cook their lunch of hot dogs and buns with baked beans at Hoyt Park... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Smiling Uncle Wallace Rumsey is pushing a wooden wheelbarrow with Jeannette and Alfred Holt inside. They are on the dirt path leading to the swimming beach... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young adults are on the deck over looking Archibald Lake. Tall white pine trees are visible. Names from left to right: {Unknown}, Lillian Wheeler (?)... |
| Date: | 02 03 1912 |
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| Description: | On the way to Lakewood, the horse-drawn sleigh stops in Gillett for a picnic lunch. Caption reads: "Mr. Chase, Miss Stuart, Miss Le Tourneaux (sp?), Mrs. W... |
| Date: | 08 14 1912 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt and two close friends are lying down on their backs on a tarp next to each other in the woods. Younger sister Eleanor Holt is also lying dow... |
| Date: | 08 22 1913 |
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| Description: | An informal group portrait of some of the Holt and Stroh cousins, along with Uncle Wallace Rumsey. Jeannette Holt and Wallace Rumsey are holding metal milk... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two canoes are pulled up on the shoreline in the Flambeau River State Forest. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men fishing in a rowboat powered by a trolling motor. They are framed by two trees on the shore of Crab Lake. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A fish is scooped in a net after being caught with a fishing pole at Twin Lakes. |
| Date: | 08 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lake Court Oreilles, Reserve Wis." A man in a rowboat looks out over the lake from a tree lined bay. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "World's First Snowmobile, Sayner, Wisconsin. Invented in 1924 by Carl Eliason of Sayner (pictured). This machine is liquid cooled, ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hunting Club, Seymour, Wis." A group of men are posing with their guns and a dog around a table in a hunting camp. |
| Date: | 08 23 1978 |
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| Description: | A man is cleaning up trash from a dirt road. Parked behind him is a Scout. News Photo sheet reads: "Responsible four-wheel drive vehicle use is one message... |
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