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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | John F. Deitz holding a Luger pistol on a visit to Cameron Dam. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the "powder storage area" of the Badger Ordnance Plant. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an example of a monadnock or inselberg, a geological formation common in northern and central Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the Battle Hollow sign along an unpaved road. In the distance on the left is a rock formation covered with trees. Sign reads: "Battle Hollow Clack ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of Black Hawk Bluff, site of the Battle of Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Fort Winnebago monument two miles east of Portage on Highway 33, erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1924. The mo... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful... |
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| Description: | Three men standing holding guns with two deer carcasses on the ground. They are posed in front of a log cabin in the snow. A boy is seated on one of the de... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
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| Description: | Three hunters standing in a clearing with a felled deer. One of the men is posing with a knife in his hand while holding the head of the deer. The other tw... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk man posing standing in a open field holding a flintlock gun. He is wearing garters, moccasins, a breech cloth, necklace, and feathers in his hair.... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man with a beard posing standing in a field wearing several necklaces, long bandoleer, and hat. He is identified as... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the U.S. Marine Corps is driven up a snow-covered hill by a man wearing a jacket, gloves, and baseball cap. The original cap... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed men ride in the back of an International vehicle which is towing a firearm. The original caption reads: "M-2-4 truck and 75-mm. gun, a... |
| Date: | 09 29 1906 |
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| Description: | A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A sign north of Shawano marks the Military Road, built 1864-1871, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Marquette, Michigan. In 1924 the Wisconsin portion of the r... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men load torpedoes onto the bed of an International truck marked: "The Independent Eastern Torpedo Co." A sign reading: "Explosives" is on the grille o... |
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