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Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
Description: One of the Native American crews hired to assist with the White Pine Blister Rust eradication effort on the Menominee Reservation. Joe Larock was identifie...
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Blister Rust Eradication Crew

Date: 1933
Description: Native Americans hired to assist with the White Pine Blister Rust eradication effort on the Menominee Reservation are being trucked to their work site.
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Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
Description: Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat.
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White Pine Blister Rust Eradication Crew

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Description: Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are...
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Selective Logging

Date: 03 1938
Description: A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.
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Blister Rust Eradication Crew

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of a ribes eradication crew that was part of the white pine blister rust effort in a Barron County forest. The caption indicates tha...
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White Pine Blister Rust Threat

Date: 06 1938
Description: S.B. Fracker and H.N. Putman, two leaders of the white pine blister rust eradication effort in Wisconsin, are examining infected trees at the Rhinelander i...
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Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 1938
Description: At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr...
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Highway Weed Control

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Description: Weed control unit of the Rock County Highway Department showing the equipment used to spray weeds along the highways.
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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 Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.

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