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Cultivating Vegetable Field with McCormick Farmall C Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer cultivating a vegetable field with a McCormick Farmall C tractor with attached cultivator. Farm buildings are in the bac...
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Dam on Duncan Creek

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Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline of dam in Chippewa Falls.
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Indian Villagers

Date: 1962
Description: View from water towards people along a shoreline in an Indian village. They are carrying food and water in baskets.
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Virgin Forest

Date: 1950
Description: A man snowshoeing in an old growth forest.
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Patterns

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view of contour farming. Farms and patches of woods are spread out in the landscape.
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The Troubled Air

Date: 09 1955
Description: Sky and clouds above Highway 43, west of Kenosha. Guard rails line the highway on both sides and trees can be seen on the left side.
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Hardy Homestead

Date: 11 1956
Description: A former homestead in the autumn, framed by leafless trees. The cabin is constructed of squared logs with interlocking double-notch joints, chinked with a ...
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Old Lead Trail

Date: 1960
Description: A man is running his dog on a trail in an old lead mining area. The trees are bare and fallen leaves are covering the ground.
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Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.
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Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
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High Cliff Park

Date: 1962
Description: Pine trees at the edge of the rocky shoreline in High Cliff Park on Lake Michigan.
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Stallion and Shadows

Date: 1959
Description: Silhouette of a horse against a snow covered hill, on CTH PB three miles south of the Dane County Home. There is a fence around the enclosure and trees on ...
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Rocky Challenge

Date: 09 1968
Description: View looking up at two boys climbing the tumbled slabs of rock at Devil's Lake State Park.
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Wintergreen Ski Slopes

Date: 02 1969
Description: View downhill towards three skiers standing on the left surveying the run before heading down the slope. More skiers are riding the ski lift overhead.
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Tireless Fun

Date: 1973
Description: Five children in snow tubes are returning to the top of the hill by hanging onto the tow rope.
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Parallel Progressions

Date: 1977
Description: Skiers on a slope make an interesting parallel pattern against the snow.
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Green Bay

Date: 1979
Description: The sun is peeking through the clouds and trees. Snow covers an open field and in the distance is a tree covered hill.
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Barn and Silo

Date: 1979
Description: A barn and silo, on a snow covered farm along Highway 78, between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. The farmhouse is behind the barn. A barbed wire fence lines th...
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Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1945
Description: University students on a field trip to Devil's Lake State Park climb the trail up through the piles of talus (broken rocks) on the slope. A couple in the f...
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Snowshoe Trail

Date: 02 1957
Description: Snowshoe tracks crossing a fresh snowfall in Pattison State Park. The tracks disappear around a curve into the trees.

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