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Tractor and Plow Being Towed

Date: 03 1935
Description: A tractor and plow on a trailer is being towed by a truck.
Photograph

Trolley

Date: 02 27 1930
Description: Six men posing with the first trackless trolley. Wisconsin Valley Electric Company #4.
Historical Essay

The Wisconsin Free Library Commission - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin
Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Map of Tomahawk, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: This map of Tomahawk shows landownership, an original plat of the city, various plat additions, roads, and railroads. The map includes annotations of road ...
Photograph

Lincoln County Court

Date: 1934
Description: Interior view towards the front of the Lincoln County Court.
Photograph

Lake Tomahawk Post Office

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the Lake Tomahawk Post Office, with a woman and two young girls posed in front. A sign painted on the side of the building advertises "Sod...
Photograph

Brush Raft on Pine Lake

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: An unidentified man is inspecting a construction of logs and branches, stacked neatly and tied with ropes. He is standing on ice on a cleared area of a sno...
Photograph

Park Entrance

Date: 1935
Description: A narrow, unpaved road passes under a rustic log arbor-like gate which marks the entrance to Bradley Park. The area is heavily wooded with tall but immatur...
Photograph

Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...
Photograph

Shelter House

Date: 1935
Description: View across lawn towards two men sitting on a log bench in the central open area of the shelter house at Council Grounds State Forest (now Council Grounds ...
Photograph

On the Wisconsin River

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man sitting in the stern of a small boat, holding a fishing rod. A younger man, sitting forward, is rowing. There...
Photograph

Forest Protection Headquarters

Date: 1936
Description: View across street towards men and women standing in small groups outside the brick Forest Protection Headquarters building of the Wisconsin Conservation D...
Photograph

Campsites in Bradley Park

Date: 1935
Description: View across park towards a boy dwarfed by Norway pines in the campground at Bradley Park. There are several tents in the background and a car is parked on ...
Photograph

Camping in Bradley Park

Date: 1936
Description: Two smiling men, one carrying long fishing poles and the other a set of paddles, are walking away from their campsites while two women are working at a pic...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

King of tomahak put boat train on Wisconsin; told tales by telegraph

Date: 1932-11-14
County: Lincoln
City: Tomahawk
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Last river pilot is 99;made trip from Wausau, 1852

Date: 1931-11-10
County: Lincoln
City: Merrill
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Town Scott church observes golden anniversary Sunday

Date: 1935-11-05
County: Lincoln
City: Scott
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Where did first missionary to Wisconsin die?

Date: 1930-03-23
County: Lincoln
City: Merrill
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Early history of Wisconsin depicts story of adventrure, toil, suffering, romance

Date: 1931-01-22
County: Lincoln
City: Merrill
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Former local man honored in Vatican City

Date: 1932-10-22
County: Lincoln
City: Merrill

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