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Filter: Year of 1940-1949
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | People on a rustic bridge over river at Copper Falls State Park. A long log building is in the background on the other side of the river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Four people outside of the information cabin at Copper Falls State Park. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | People descending a rustic stairway leading down to the trail along the Bad River. |
| Date: | 01 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Blueprint design for a suspension footbridge for Copper Falls State Park. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Field with contours, and two mounds. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Field prior to the park's reconstruction, with a fence in the foreground. A river is at the bottom of the hill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Church, several houses and field from a hill. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a canoe on the St. Croix River with wooded areas on both sides within the Interstate State Park. Established in 1900, Interstate Park was... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Wyalusing State Park in the Prairie du Chein vicinity. The Wisconsin River is in the foreground and the Mississippi river can be seen below with distant bl... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Passenger Pigeon Plaque monument designed and built between 1947 and 1948 and is located in Wyalusing State Park. The plaque reads "DEDICATED TO THE LA... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Passenger Pigeon Monument was designed and built around 1947. It was erected by the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Old farm home and present custodian's quarters at Kettle Moraine State Forest. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The tunnel at the bottom of the shot tower shaft. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from the bluff at Tower Hill State Park of the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Tower Hill State Park Shot Shaft". |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A marker at the former site of the smelter which stood at the top of the shot tower shaft. The sign reads: "Tower Hill State Park The Old Shot Tower At thi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Tower Hill State Park trail leading to the top of the shot tower shaft. |
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