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This grant program seeks to enrich individuals’ lives and the civic life of communities through humanities education. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Two men stand at the base of the White Pine tree reported in 1945 to be the largest in the world at 16.8' in circumference and 140.42' in height. Larger sp... |
Date: | 01 01 1934 |
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Description: | Man in uniform leaning up against the base of a large tree. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | The largest white pine tree standing in America, with several people posing beneath it. Its estimated age is 350-years-old. |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-1930) of Forest County, Wisconsin, the last hereditary chief of the Potowatomi. |
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Description: | Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-1930) of Forest County, Wisconsin, the last hereditary chief of the Potowatomi. This image is part of an exhibit about Nat... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Tecumsa, a Potowatomi, and his family. Tecumsa is standing in the back in the center, and a man is sitting in front of him on a blanket holding up an hatch... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | Postcard depicting a group of Potawatomi men at Stone Lake playing the game of moccasin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared ... |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Leona street scene with parked cars in front of Connor's Big Department Store and the Hotel Gordon, photographed sometime during the summer of 1941. Soon... |
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Description: | A view of the Soo Line Depot and railroad tracks running through the town at Armstrong Creek. A man, child, and a dog are walking on the railroad tracks. |
Date: | 07 1941 |
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Description: | Two buildings, perhaps outhouses, and farm equipment in the vicinity of Crandon. |
Date: | 07 1941 |
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Description: | A man is driving an automobile in a field near two buildings, perhaps outhouses. |
Date: | 07 28 1941 |
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Description: | Charlie Spencer (b.1873?), a Kentuckian who migrated to Crandon, recorded white spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is sitting in a ch... |
Date: | 08 14 1941 |
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Description: | Outdoor portrait of Robert Walker. He recorded lumberjack songs for collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View down the unpaved main street of Argonne. The inn in the right foreground was the Commercial House. Across the street, the first building on the left... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | View of a park, with the Forest County courthouse in the background. |
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Description: | Caption reads: "Presbyterian Church, Crandon, Wis." |
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