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Ice Harvesting

Date: 1910
Description: Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River.
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Photo Finish

Date: 1950
Description: Two sailboats racing on Lake Michigan.
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Virgin Forest

Date: 1950
Description: A man snowshoeing in an old growth forest.
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Swimmin' Hole

Date: 1950
Description: A group of children swimming below a cascade on a river. The area is surrounded by trees.
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Wisconsin's Children

Date: 1950
Description: Children are playing in the water and in the sand at a beach.
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Spring Scene

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards a boy standing on a pier overlooking a lake. In the foreground are flowering trees.
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He's Got One

Date: 1950
Description: A group of people are fishing on a shoreline of rocks and logs. One man with a bamboo fishing pole is pulling a fish from the water.
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Anticipation

Date: 1950
Description: Two young boys observing as an older man is tightening a bolt on the tiller of a sailboat. Tools and other objects are hanging on the wall behind them.
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Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
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Summer's End

Date: 1950
Description: Tree-lined view from shoreline looking down at a lake scene of two adults and two children in a rowboat. Lily pads are floating on the surface of the lake ...
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Silver Ribbons

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of parallel tracks in a railroad yard, with a locomotive pulling a boxcar. A man is standing near the boxcar. On the right are buildings, and...
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Touch Football

Date: 09 1950
Description: Students playing a game of touch football on a dirt field at Norbert College. One team is wearing shirts with "Inmates" printed on the front, other shirts ...
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Wisconsin Farm Kitchen

Date: 1951
Description: Lawrence Sherman sitting in a chair by the window, reading the paper in his farm kitchen. On the left is a Jungers Model E stove with kettles and a teapot....
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.
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Papermaking

Date: 1953
Description: Elevated interior view of a paper mill with paper making machinery. An employee is standing next to the machinery on the left.
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Team! Team!

Date: 1955
Description: Two young boys playing with a football. One boy wearing a helmet is about to kick the football, just as the other boy has just stood the ball upright.
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The Plotters

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of four women sitting, and one man standing, around a large map of northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The women are wearing ...
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Journey's End

Date: 02 15 1955
Description: A passenger waiting for a train in front of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad station on a clear and cold evening. The person is holding a lamp, and a ...
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End of a Cold Journey

Date: 02 18 1958
Description: The SS Meteor, a Great Lakes cargo steamship of whaleback design, coming into harbor. The ship is covered with snow and ice and the surface of the l...
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Summer Sanctuary

Date: 1959
Description: Paddlers in a canoe on their way down the Namekagon river. The shoreline on the left is tree-covered.

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