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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | New Glarus from an early lithograph. Caption reads: "A Swiss contribution to American culture, New Glarus, Wis., founded in 1845 by Swiss settlers and stil... |
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| Description: | Vietnam veterans ceremoniously planting a tree together. |
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| Description: | As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes no modern culture could survive without a touch of France |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery. |
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| Description: | View down hill of town in a valley. There is open land, homes, barns and a bee farm. |
| Date: | 06 17 1925 |
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| Description: | Corn planter on display on a lawn outdoors. In the background, automobiles are parked along a street. There are brick buildings across the street in the ba... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Barn, smoke house, and bake house at Weiss farm, residence of John Weiss, in the township of Saukville, Ozaukee County, one half mile from County Trunk Hwy... |
| Date: | 04 26 1997 |
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| Description: | "School children plant three trees in the village park near Firemen's Park." |
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| Description: | Drawing depicting a person sowing seeds in furrowed ground with a cityscape in the background. An arm and hammer appear in the sky superimposed on a sun-li... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited through the Madison Youth Council helped plant trees and shrubs on the Vilas Park island. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Beekeeper H.F. Wilson sitting among his hives in a backyard apiary. To his left, a hive smoker is resting on a hive letting off smoke. There are a least 25... |
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| Description: | Art Kehl is standing outdoors with a pipe in his mouth and is handing a matching hat to an unknown young woman in a dress decorated with bees. Located in R... |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Features the dome with the "Wisconsin" statue replaced by a seated beekeeper wearing protective clothing, ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the building and grounds of the Ashland General Hospital. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig... |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Watertown. Willkommen in Watertown. A City of Stories. Watertown, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Front: Watertown, Wisconsin is home to a g... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The John H. Rountree House, built in 1854. According to "The History of Wisconsin" (Vol. I, 1973), "The rise of the settlement at Platte Mounds was indisso... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Indian School. |
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