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| Description: | Forest rangers using an emergency phone on the back of a truck. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a variety of evergreen trees in a nursery, including White, Norway, Scotch and Jack pines, and White and Norway spruce near Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | Forest area that once furnished employment for settlers, but through lack of reforestation was considered almost worthless at the time this image was creat... |
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| Description: | Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two eight point bucks are standing in dappled shade at the edge of a wooded area. |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | The caption on the reverse of this print reads: "Miss Ferguson sitting with dog on shore of Pine Lake." They are framed by the trunks of two birch trees, a... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified men, working from a boat or raft, are dumping the contents of milk cans into the waters of a lake. There are small cottages on the shore i... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man, likely a conservation warden, stands looking upward with his left hand resting on the trunk of a tree near the Star lake Ranger Station. The trees ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1936 |
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| Description: | One man is working on a ladder near the side door of a one and one half story, masonry block building with five garage bays. There are two men on the right... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A young woman in a light-colored dress is standing behind a counter as an older man is writing in a notebook. He is holding a tourism brochure for Boulder ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed, unidentified woman is standing next to a muskie hanging from a line. She is next to the porch of a large building, and there is an automobi... |
| Date: | 07 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Seven-year-old Russell Jefferson, right, is standing holding his rod and reel next to his father, Dan Jefferson. Dan is holding the 38 pound, 6 ounce muski... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A large crew of men are bending to their work of planting seedling trees into furrows. Each man is carrying a spade-like tool with a long handle, and a box... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A single lane unpaved road is winding through a wooded area of pine, birch, and other trees. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A log house with a cobblestone foundation stands among pine trees in the Northern Highland State Forest. Horizontal logs comprise the lower portion of the ... |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | The caption on the reverse of this photograph reads: "Steiro girls sitting on lake shore at Trout Lake." The girls are wearing swimming suits, and a dog is... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man. He is wearing a plaid jacket over a dark-colored shirt. There appears to be construction in progress be... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A motor boat carrying three people is leaving a small wake in the calm waters of Crawling Stone Lake as it heads toward an island. There is a worn wooden p... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t... |
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