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Filter: Year of 1970-1979
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl... |
| Date: | 10 18 1978 |
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| Description: | View down Old Sauk Pass towards a house in a valley during a rainstorm in rural Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Group of people outdoors behind a fence at a rock festival. |
| Date: | 12 1972 |
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| Description: | Ojibwa man standing outdoors near an automobile. The man is wearing a plaid coat, and a cap. In the background are trees and a lake. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Frances Decorah and her son Patrick at a Pow-wow in South Dakota. She is seated in a lawn chair and Patrick is napping on her lap. Frances is wearing stree... |
| Date: | 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Children running to the school bus during a light snow fall. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Deserted farmstead with a cow standing in the snow at the base of a windmill. The wooden portions of the stone farmhouse are deteriorating, and many pieces... |
| 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: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right. |
| 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: | 01 1974 |
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| Description: | A harrow in a field casting a long shadow on the snow-covered ground. |
| Date: | 06 1973 |
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| Description: | A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down road from a hill towards a dog returning to his driveway after the children were picked up by the school bus on a rural road. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View through snow-covered cattails after a winter snowfall towards a house on the left, and a barn and a silo on the right. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man driving a large sled pulled by two draft horses up the hill through the snow. Further down the hill in the background is a sno... |
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