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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men and two boys standing on ice in front of a windsled. All four are holding lake trout. |
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| Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
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| Description: | North face of High Rock. Two women are sitting on the sandy beach, one child is playing along the shoreline near a rowboat and canoe pulled up on the sandy... |
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| Description: | Steamboat Rock, with two children playing at the edge of the river. |
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| Description: | South face of Swallows Nest in the Wisconsin Dells. Ruth, Miriam and Evaline Bennett are in a rowboat near the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Romance Cliff from the bar above High Rock. Two children are on the beach in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Ashley Bennett and three friends in a homemade sailboat. This was captioned: "Going to Join the Navy." |
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| Description: | Bracket at the mouth of Witches' Gulch, with boy a posing sitting on the edge. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation. |
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| Description: | Two boys, probably brothers, using a small boat with outboard motor. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat at Louis Bluff. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" passengers disembarking and lining the stairs from landing up to Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat in the entrance of Cold Water Canyon. Two girls are posing on a rock formation in the foreground looking out at the steamboat. |
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| Description: | View of "Apollo No. 1" Steamboat in Narrows from Devil's Elbow. Two girls are looking out at the steamboat from rocks in the foreground. |
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