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| "Blitz Fog" pesticide package, manufactured for Northern Industries, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, c. 1965-1967. (Museum object # 1999.143.22) |
| Read about Earth Day's founder, Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin senator and early environmentalist. |
| The People who Shaped the Movement |
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| Discover how a 19th century Scottish farm boy and many other devoted citizens created the conservation movement in Wisconsin. |
| Read about Wisconsin's role in the development of the environmental movement in the United States in the 20th century. |
| Date: | 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Acting on the suggestion of his mentor Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin congressman David R. Obey participated (here at a gym) at the first Earth Day even... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Editorial cartoon depicting Rodin's "The Thinker" wearing a gas mask. The figure is surrounded by pollution, with a factory spewing smoke in the background... |
| Date: | 08 27 1959 |
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| Description: | A new 4-cent postage stamp honors the American soil conservation effort by showing various phases of soil conservation. Shown (L-R) are: Russell Silverwood... |
| Date: | 05 1997 |
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| Description: | Arbor Day activities for school children at Theresa Fireman's Park: a light lunch, a slide presentation, and the planting of two trees. |
| Date: | 07 1997 |
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| Description: | Bill Voelker, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife Educator and Naturalist, poses near DNR building located between Mayville and Horicon. |
| Date: | 05 1999 |
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| Description: | 77 volunteers pick up trash and debris in the Rock River. Chuck Trauba and the crew covered the river from Theresa Marsh to the Theresa Disposal plant. 50 ... |
| Date: | 05 2000 |
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| Description: | Group of students at Theresa Fireman's Park for Arbor Day activities. |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Five teen boys stand ankle deep in Black Earth Creek (west of Cross Plains) while working together to build a conversion dam in the creek bed. The boys are... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Two teen boys and an adult stand in ankle deep Black Earth Creek (west of Cross Plains) while working together to build a "V" shaped conversion dam, pointi... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Three teen boys work together to build up the side of the creek to stop the flowing water from washing the soil away on an edge of Black Earth Creek west o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This quadrangle collection of maps, meaning geological surveys, shows sections of central and northern Wisconsin. The maps include a quadrangle index map. ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Sunlight spotlights a prairie tract where more than 100 members of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum picnicked and toured the area in gr... |
| Date: | 08 13 1965 |
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| Description: | H.O. Lord, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District chief engineer, outlining the existing sewerage district on a map. Lord is trying to educate the public c... |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four men, taken at the Club Chanticleer, holding up a banner depicting ducks in a marsh. There is a "Support Ducks Unlimited" poster in t... |
| Date: | 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Fundraising advertisement for the Environmental Teach-In on April 22 in honor of Earth Day. The first sentence reads: "A disease has infected our country."... |
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