A Traveling Display |
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Explore Muir's youth in Wisconsin, his advocacy for national parks and his views on environmental issues such as logging, hunting and climate change. |
A Traveling Display |
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Great Lakes Small Streams visually explores our state's long relationship with water and the impact we have had on our vast waterways. |
Share Wisconsin history with your community! |
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The Wisconsin Historical Society offers banner displays to schools, civic organizations, community groups, and other public and private venues. |
Article exploring the history of Earth Day and its creation by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. |
Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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Milly Zantow, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
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Description: | Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are... |
Date: | 05 12 1948 |
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Description: | Group portrait of fifteen members of the Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation, sponsors of an anti-pollution meeting to prohibit dumping of sewage ... |
Date: | 05 12 1948 |
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Description: | Elevated view of members of the audience attending a meeting sponsored by the newly incorporated Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation. The meeting ... |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | Gaylord Nelson participates in a canoe trip down the Namekagon River in an effort to protect the river under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Nelson sits in a canoe and looks out over the water around the Apostle Islands. |
Date: | 05 1970 |
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Description: | The front page of "The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter" announcing Earth Day 1970, with the headline: "Mass Movement Begins." |
Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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Description: | Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo... |
Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
Date: | 03 03 1970 |
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Description: | The cover design of the magazine "Environmental Action: April 22" featuring a line drawing of multititudes of people clinging to and falling off of the Ear... |
Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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Description: | Two people walk near a large rock formation in a wooded area with a picnic table in the foreground. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park loca... |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Students at Wausau West High School involved in an innovative science project that studied energy consumption and pollution of the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 07 1976 |
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Description: | Diagram showing environmental means by which humans can be exposed to radiation from nuclear power plants. |
Date: | 1993 |
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Description: | A map of Milwaukee County, indicating the locations of toxic sites and the types of toxic sites, ranging from those listed as a superfund site, industry re... |
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