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| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 1968 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paddlers in a canoe on their way down the Namekagon river. The shoreline on the left is tree-covered. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 10 1962 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from riverbank of a family enjoying a canoe ride on the Wisconsin River, in Tower Hill State Park. The trees are thick on both shorelines. |
| Date: | 09 1968 |
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| Description: | View looking up at two boys climbing the tumbled slabs of rock at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Children running to the school bus during a light snow fall. |
| Date: | 02 1969 |
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| Description: | View downhill towards three skiers standing on the left surveying the run before heading down the slope. More skiers are riding the ski lift overhead. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Five children in snow tubes are returning to the top of the hill by hanging onto the tow rope. |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Teen boy resting on an inner tube while floating down the Apple River, a very popular summer activity. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A man and women riding in a sleigh pulled by a single horse. In the background is a barn partially obscured by light snow. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Skiers on a slope make an interesting parallel pattern against the snow. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A boy flying a diamond-shaped kite in a grassy field. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
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