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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Alma was platted and settled in 1855, on a narrow strip of land between high bluffs and the Mississippi River. Its location made it a popular shipping cent... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a house on the banks of the Mississippi River at the base of rocky bluffs. Probably located between Alma and Nelson, along Beef S... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Five men posing in front of the floating fish market, which is on the shore of the Mississippi River. One of the men is holding a large buffalo fish. The m... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man diving off a pier into the Mississippi River. Another man is swimming in the water, while other men and boys are standing on the floating pier. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A boathouse, boat and pier on the frozen shoreline of the Mississippi River. More buildings appear in the background, a snow covered tree on the left and a... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of an automobile traveling north on Highway 35, near the Mississippi River. Railroad tracks run between the road and the river. In the background are ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View through the trees showing the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers in Wyalusing State Park. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View of Perrot State Park from the opposite shore of the Mississippi river. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Lotus beds on Mississippi River in the foreground and middleground. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of people lined up fishing side by side on long pier. A railroad bridge, with a tanker car, is in the background. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | People ice fishing on the frozen Mississippi River. Hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Woman in a boat showing a fish she has just caught on the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 12 1976 |
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| Description: | Towboat pushing barges through ice on the Mississippi River as winter closes shipping traffic. Elevated view shows broken ice surrounding the barges, creat... |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boats moored to a dock at a marina on the Mississippi River in early summer make an interesting pattern. There is a person walking on the ... |
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| Description: | Several men and a horse-drawn sled harvesting Mississippi River ice. Alma, Wisconsin is visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis... |
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