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Delavan Burial Mounds Marker

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Description: View of a rock with a plaque that reads: "Group of Prehistoric Indian Burial Mounds and Winnebago Village Site. Marked by the Delavan Woman's Club - May 19...
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Eleazer William's House's First Site at Little Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: A woman stands in a marsh near the site of Eleazer William's first house.
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Fort St. Antoine Site

Date: 1920
Description: Alleged site of Fort St. Antoine.
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi...
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Rescue of airplane which has crashed into Lake Mendota near the north shore. View of the airplane from the water toward the shore and Camp Wakanda. Tom La...
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Man Clinging to Plank after Steamer Sinks

Date: 1857
Description: Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central Amer...
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Sigurd Olson

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe.
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Portaging at Curtain Falls

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Description: View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
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Elevated View down State Street

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Description: Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota.
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Elevated View down Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue towards Lake Mendota.
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Fox River Canal

Date: 1940
Description: View from the second floor balcony of the Charles A Grignon House at Kaukauna showing the historic boat canal and the Fox River beyond it.
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Crewmen and Clothesline

Date: 06 1942
Description: Two members of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta sitting by the rail on a bench as laundry dries on a clothesline in the foreground. One m...
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Crewman Aboard Freighter

Date: 06 1942
Description: A crew member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta looking over the side of the freighter at the Caribbean Sea and the clouds. The man is ...
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Patrol in a Canoe in the Rain

Date: 1942
Description: A patrol from the 14th Infantry canoeing in the rain in Panama. Three men in fatigues holding sub-machine guns are sitting in a canoe.
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Tree-Top Sentry

Date: 1942
Description: A sentry wearing fatigues sitting in a tree-top lookout post posing for a photograph in Panama. His sub-machine gun is resting on a section of the lookout ...
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Soldier and Cannonballs

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier walks along the edge of a cliff in Panama, behind stacks of cannonballs and a large sign. The man is wearing a uniform and is holding a sub-machi...
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Red Cross Workers Relaxing

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff...
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Hospital Ship

Date: 04 1945
Description: Elevated view of a newly commissioned hospital ship, the USS Bountiful, in the Ulithi Harbor. The ship was previously called the USS Henderson
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Body on Stretcher

Date: 1945
Description: A body on a stretcher is lying on the deck of the USS "Samaritan." The body is covered by a blanket, except for an arm which has a small tattoo. Behind the...

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