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| Description: | A group of people, including two men, two women and a youth, is gathered around a campfire on a beach in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. One of the women,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Nine unidentified men and women on horseback are posing in front of the lodge at Point Beach State Forest. A young girl wearing a swimming suit is sitting ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman is posing sitting on the sand and looking toward Lake Michigan. The newly built shelter house, with its large windowed bay and massiv... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from pier towards a young couple sitting in the back of a wooden boat tied to a pier in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek Harbor is in the background, ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bandana on her head is sitting at a picnic table talking with another woman who is standing in front of a tent-style camping trailer. Bot... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards two men and two women in bathing suits standing and holding hands while standing in shallow water as a small wave breaks around... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two smiling men are sitting on the ground and posing with seven good-sized fish. The man on the right is holding a line with a lure on it above the open mo... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across water towards six women, three in each of two canoes, are smiling as they paddle near a shoreline in the background. There are buoys farther ou... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man and a woman posing in the act of putting on a green of the golf course in Peninsula State Park. Eagle Harbor and the village o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man and woman are paddling their canoe against the current in the fast running Flambeau River. A small stand of leafless trees and blackene... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three anglers wearing waders, including a woman on the left, are casting while standing in shallow water. The woman has a kreel on her hip, and the man on ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The description on the reverse of this print describes the scene: "A horseback rider pauses to view the beauties of Devils Lake nestled among the bluffs at... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys are standing on a boulder on the shore of a lake or stream in a wooded area. One boy is holding a thin stick which has a fishing line a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young woman smiles as she enjoys the view from the Potawatomi Tower in Potawatomi State Park. There is a house on a small island in Sawyer Harbor, with ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing woolen snowsuits and hats are maneuvering a toboggan over deep snow in a wooded landscape. The sled is loaded with bales of hay and two bus... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men with shotguns, accompanied by two dogs, hunting in a grassy field. There is a row of trees and utility poles in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lear Shewano is dwarfed by a grove of huge virgin white pine trees in the Menominee Indian Reservation. He is wearing a white hat and plaid shirt. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and girl are posing on the drive leading to a brick house behind mature pines. The house was built in the 1890's by General Walter Ca... |
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