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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A man stands atop a sled load of logs drawn by two horses at Hein's Logging Camp. Several other men stand atop large pile of logs behind him. Snow lies on ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pumpkins are scattered in a field near corn shocks. Farm buildings are in the distance. Caption from calendar: "Shocks of corn on a Wisconsin farm. Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards Holstein cattle in a pasture. Caption from calendar: "A Holstein dairy herd — Polk county. Wisconsin's fame as America's... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | University students on a field trip to Devil's Lake State Park climb the trail up through the piles of talus (broken rocks) on the slope. A couple in the f... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two canoes are pulled up on the shoreline in the Flambeau River State Forest. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | People are standing in the middle of a flock of turkeys at the Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | View of trees and a farm building as seen through a dilapidated door and window of an old house. Snow is on the threshold of the door and in front of the b... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Abandoned mill, formerly called the Modena Roller Mills. The first mill was built in 1865 (now torn down). |
| Date: | 10 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of the Baumgartner Dairy Farm, one half mile east of Three Lakes, WI. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View down center of a road in winter after a fresh snow. Pine trees are along the right, and deciduous trees are on the left. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Black Earth Creek in the winter, with the banks covered with snow. Large trees are leaning over the creek on the right bank. In the background are a fence,... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man wading and fishing in the Brule River. He is wearing waders, a plaid shirt, hat and creel, and has netted a fish. In the background is a forest and p... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Dried foliage pokes through a wind sculpted snowdrift. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Copper Falls plunging over rocks on the Bad River in Copper Falls State Park. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour farming surrounding multiple farms and woods. |
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