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Broomball Game

Date: 03 10 1980
Description: An outdoor broomball game in action in the snow.
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Mowing the Lawn

Date: 05 28 1987
Description: A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained.
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Family Camping Trip

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park.
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Archery Practice

Date: 09 20 1988
Description: A father gives his young son archery pointers in Kletzsch Park while his daughter looks on.
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Sun Dip

Date: 07 08 1988
Description: Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break.
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Tubing Down Mule Hill

Date: 01 02 1988
Description: Bundled-up boys ride their tubes down an icy slope in Mee-Kwon Park.
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Brookfield Days Roller Coaster

Date: 06 23 1983
Description: Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park.
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Flowage Road Intersection

Date: 06 1980
Description: Identified only as the intersection of Flowage Road and State Highway 173 in Juneau County, this image probably shows the entrance to the Meadow Valley Flo...
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A Park in Winter

Date: 11 29 1989
Description: Panoramic view of Riverside Park during the winter.
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Water Fight

Date: 08 1980
Description: "Water fights take place at Theresa Firemen's Park."
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Gun Site

Date: 01 1983
Description: "The gun site was photographed on a winter night."
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Fire Fighting Instruction

Date: 05 1984
Description: "MPTI instructors from Fond du Lac instructed over 200 firemen from 16 fire departments in the techniques of rappelling and snuffing out fires at Theresa F...
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Fire Fighting Instruction

Date: 05 1984
Description: "MPTI instructors from Fond du Lac instructed over 200 firemen from 16 fire departments in the techniques of rappelling and snuffing out fires at Theresa F...
Map or Atlas

Racine County and Kenosha County

Date: 1987
Description: This 1987 map of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin, shows towns, sections, cities and villages, zip code boundaries, highways and roads, bicycle route...
Photograph

Men Roasting Corn

Date: 08 1982
Description: Dennis Bodden, Frank Kuczkowski and Adrian Geiger are busy roasting corn at Firemen's Park.
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Water Barrel Fights

Date: 07 1984
Description: Water barrel fight: two groups with dueling hoses suspend a barrel in air. Children and adults look on with excitment.
Map or Atlas

Map of Mosinee

Date: 1982
Description: Color map. "Topography by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1963. Revised from aerial photographs taken 1978. Field checked 1979. Map e...
Map or Atlas

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1986-1987 ; Plover, Wisconsin

Date: 1986
Description: Pictorial map showing businesses with phone numbers, roads, railroads, and parks. Includes text titled: "History of Portage County."
Map or Atlas

Port Washington, Wisconsin

Date: 1989
Description: This pictorial map shows Lake Michigan, businesses with phone numbers, schools, parks, other points of interest, and includes a brief history of the town. ...
Photograph

A Quiet Summer Day in Orton Park

Date: 1982
Description: Two people sit at a table in a gazebo in Orton Park. Houses in the neighborhood surrounding the park stand in the background behind the blooming trees.

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