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Soldiers with Wreckage

Date: 1958
Description: Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns.
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Virgin Forest

Date: 1950
Description: A man snowshoeing in an old growth forest.
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1952
Description: Aerial view of a farm in the summer.
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Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
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Klondike Flapjacks

Date: 05 1968
Description: A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p...
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Icy Pasture

Date: 1977
Description: Horse in a pasture on a wintry day.
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Tepees

Date: 10 1955
Description: Shocks of corn are lined up in a cornfield during harvest.
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Breach of Time

Date: 1956
Description: A stone barn, tree and another building. The remains of a ladder is leaning against the foundation of the barn.
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Sugar Bush

Date: 1960
Description: Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm.
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The Population Explosion

Date: 1959
Description: A bird's nest with eggs, on the wheel of a vintage hay rake.
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Summer Sanctuary

Date: 1959
Description: Paddlers in a canoe on their way down the Namekagon river. The shoreline on the left is tree-covered.
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Old Lead Trail

Date: 1960
Description: A man is running his dog on a trail in an old lead mining area. The trees are bare and fallen leaves are covering the ground.
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Trail of the Abominable Snowman

Date: 03 1961
Description: Tracks in the snow seen by moonlight on the shore of the Eau Claire River.
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Fishing at Keshena Falls

Date: 10 1962
Description: Elevated view of a fisherman netting his fish near the bridge at Keshena Falls. Caption on reverse reads: "This is an actual catch I just happened to be pr...
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The Thaw

Date: 01 1963
Description: Dried grass is caught in a barb wire fence that is leaning over near a small creek. Snow is on the ground.
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Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
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High Cliff Park

Date: 1962
Description: Pine trees at the edge of the rocky shoreline in High Cliff Park on Lake Michigan.
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Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...
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Sentimental Silhouettes

Date: 1968
Description: Two ducks are silhouetted on the Chippewa Flowage at sunrise or sunset.

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