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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Composite of views of Muscoda including: Electric Light plant, Smalley House, St. John Catholic Church, Lover's Lane, Muscoda Public School, Wisconsin Aven... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Tourist camp at Lakeside Park on Lake Winnebago. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne... |
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| Description: | Waldheim Park Sanatorium boat house. Caption reads: "Boat House, Waldheim Park Sanatorium, Oconomowoc, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The gymnasium of Oshkosh State Normal School. This gynasium was regarded as the best equipped in the nation, and was constructed during the school presiden... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men are hunting with rifles in the Wisconsin woods. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. Instead of shooting a deer, one hunter shoots a giant ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two hunters, rifles in hand, transport the giant rabbits they have killed homeward. They have tied the rabbits to a wooden pole, which they rested between... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Three young boys gather around a wheelbarrow filled with giant peaches. One of the boys is holding a peach that has been broken open, exposing its pit. Two... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Three men ride a dairy cow on a dirt road, while a fourth pulls at the cow's tail. Of the three men, one is holding a tennis racket, one is holding a golf ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two men are pulling a giant fish over a wooden fence. They are on the shore of a lake. On the ground beside the men rests a pile of several other giant fis... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of men on a lakeshore grapple with a giant pike. Two men pull on a rope hooked to the pike while two more stand ready with harpoon-like sticks. Ano... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant trout resting on the back of a bright red flatbed pickup truck. Children look on with awe; one is pointing at the trout. White curs... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A fisherman is reclining in his boat at sunset as many fish swim in the lake. He is drinking beer out of a tap attached to a barrel floating in the water. ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a winter scene with men fishing on a frozen lake. Two men pull on the line attached to the fish's mouth, while one holds an axe above its h... |
| Date: | 06 30 1916 |
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| Description: | Three men attempt to pull a giant fish onto shore using a rope. A dam spans the length of the river in the background. Red text in the upper left corner be... |
| Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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| Description: | A riverboat travels down a narrow canal. Storefronts, sidewalks and telephone poles line either side of the canal. Caption reads: "St. Clair Up-to-Date." ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1922 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg... |
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