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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse. |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of woman smiling and wearing a bathing suit while sitting in the back of a motorboat. She is steering the outboard motor on a lake. Behind her is the ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
| Date: | 06 22 1983 |
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| Description: | Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head. |
| Date: | 12 03 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman takes a bath at the Edgewater beauty and health spa. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a man in a rowboat at Berry's Landing, along the rocks opposite. Caption at bottom: "In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin Ri... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Rock Falls Works. The factory was owned by the Keystone Manufacturing Company until 1904, when the company was pur... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragists sitting aboard the Mary E. at dockside on the Wolf River. The boat sports a banner reading: "Votes for Women." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. The factory was owned and operated by the International Flax Twine Company (originally Minnie Harvester Company), a subsidiar... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Menomonie at the turn of the century, view of the river and town. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The railroad trestle over the Red Cedar River with a steam train passing over. |
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