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Railroad Crossing

Date: 08 19 1949
Description: The intersection of South Hamilton Street and Law Parkway (now John Nolen Drive) streets, site of a "blind" railroad crossing. Includes small sign on a tre...
Photograph

Rotten Well Covering

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ...
Photograph

Rotten Well Covering

Date: 03 1926
Description: A rotting and broken wooden well covering around a well pump near a field.
Photograph

Leaky Top of Well

Date: 02 1928
Description: A boy wearing a winter coat and hat is pumping water from a well into ladles two other boys are holding. A shed, wheelbarrow, and wood scraps are in the ba...
Photograph

Wooden Water Pump

Date: 05 26 1926
Description: A man using a wooden pump to fill a metal pail with water. The photograph was staged to demonstrate a hazard found on farms.
Photograph

Farm Hazard: Old Wooden Pump

Date: 1926
Description: A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Postcard

Curtiss Flying Boat at Trout Lake

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate...
Postcard

First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight.

The marker text reads:

"FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI...

Photograph

Man and Woman with Fire Watch Seaplane

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Description: A man and a woman are standing on a shoreline in front of a fire watch seaplane pulled up onto the beach. On the tail of the plane is the Piper Cub logo fe...

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