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Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in flooded cranberry field for harvest.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Jennie Matzke Inspecting Beehive

Date: 1924
Description: Jennie Matzke standing on a block to open and inspect the top of a tall beehive. She is wearing a hat with a bee veil, and there are a number of hives arou...
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After a Windstorm

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Description: View looking uphill towards a man in a hardhat standing in the middle of fallen pine trees.
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Bee Inspector

Date: 1934
Description: The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in waders harvesting cranberries. In the foreground the fields have been flooded for the harvest. In the background crates have been stacked along the ...
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Pheasant Release

Date: 10 1981
Description: "Chuck Trauba releases pheasants on Warner Road."
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Experimental Aircraft

Date: 1976
Description: "Experimental Aircraft at the EAA in Oshkosh."
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Blackhawk Bowhunters Club

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: Dale Weiderholt and Bernadine Cowley, members of Blackhawk Bowhunters Club, preparing to shoot.
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Bike Riders

Date: 10 1996
Description: "Bike riders cross the Rock River near the intersection of AY & Gill Road."
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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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Blackhawk Bowhunters Club

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: Lois Herning, age 10, surveys her results on an archery target at Blackhawk Bowhunters Club.
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Biking on McArthur Road

Date: 08 1996
Description: "A lone biker glides off into the distance on a misty McArthur Road."
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Girls Playing Softball

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Description: Two young girls are playing softball in an open grass field. One girl is swinging a bat at a ball flying in midair. The other girl is standing behind her o...
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Biplane over Field

Date: 1938
Description: A biplane is flying low over a field with a barn in the background.
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Football Game at Hillside Home School

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Description: A football game being played near Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Packers Player Signing Autographs

Date: 1973
Description: Green Bay Packers running back, Ron McBride, wearing a #24 jersey and carrying a helmet, signs autographs for fans as he walks from Lambeau Field to the pr...
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Larry McCarren Walking to Practice

Date: 1973
Description: Green Bay Packers Center, Larry McCarren (#54) walking across the Lambeau Field parking lot toward the practice field. Several young fans seeking autograph...

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