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Quiet Moment

Date: 05 14 1987
Description: A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench.
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Old Man and Windsor Billboard

Date: 1980
Description: An elderly man is sitting in the grass by a Windsor Canadian Whiskey billboard.
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Rural Wisconsin Landscape

Date: 11 05 1986
Description: Green Lake County Highway M meandering toward a red barn in the distance on a November day, an archtypal Wisconsin landscape.
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Bedroom with Skylights

Date: 02 09 1984
Description: Interior view of an attic bedroom with skylights and a television.
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Interrupted Road Construction

Date: 01 1981
Description: Empty snowy plains soon to be turned into Rt. 81. Hills and a few poles are in the far distance.
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Gas Station (Closed)

Date: 11 1980
Description: Presumably the back side of a service station located at 2663 South Stoughton Road, south of McFarland.
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Ma Posing at Esou's

Date: 1989
Description: "Ma" posing near plants at Esou's. She is wearing a long dress and a fancy hat with feathers. A gravel road and other vegetation are in the background.
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Oakfield Water Tower

Date: 05 1981
Description: Oakfield water tower, Waupun Street.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Freshly harvested cranberries float on the top of a flooded cranberry marsh. The berries are gathered and fed onto a conveyor belt that dumps the berries i...
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Cranberry Gathering

Date: 1980
Description: Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh.
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Raking Cranberries

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh...
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Dead Alligator

Date: 03 23 1981
Description: An animal control officer with a dead alligator that has been pulled out of the water.
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International S-Series Truck on Job Site

Date: 10 01 1980
Description: An International S-Series truck with a trailer on a dirt road in front of a newly-constructed silo and several barns and farm buildings.
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Mail Boxes

Date: 08 1981
Description: "The Lange property is on McArthur Road, near Mayville."
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Burdock Closeup

Date: 01 1980
Description: "This is a closeup photo of the nasty Burdock weed. Note all the tiny burs."
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Wagon Train

Date: 06 1982
Description: "Bill Zahn of Juneau organized this wagon train as it traveled on Y near Knowles."
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Wagon Train

Date: 06 1982
Description: "Bill Zahn of Juneau organized this wagon train as it traveled on Y near Knowles."
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Relocated Road

Date: 07 1982
Description: "Things have changed since the Oct. 1948 photo on the opposite page was taken. In the 60s, the road was relocated and is now a tangled mass of brush and de...

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