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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
| Date: | 10 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Green Elm Road Bridge over the east fork of Hemlock Creek, showing the rocks used to prevent erosion. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | T. N19 R. 4W about section 19, McPeak farm. A 50 foot deep ravine is seen rapidly eating its way toward farm buildings. |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co... |
| Date: | 10 1929 |
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| Description: | A man standing on a horse-drawn wagon is using a pitchfork to move hay into a field gully blocked with wood. Another man is standing behind the wagon. |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a terraced farm field belonging to M.L. Jackson. Multiple tree stumps are scattered throughout the foreground and farm buildings are in th... |
| Date: | 03 18 1915 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned cotton field along the side of a dirt road. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A boy standing near a large area of soil erosion in a rural area. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Lindsey Reese, dressed in a hat and suit jacket, standing in an abandoned field. Several farm buildings are in the far background. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a washed and gullied field on the farm of LeRoy LeFevre. A farmhouse, barns, windmill, and other structures are in the background. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape featuring a rural city center with a prominent courthouse surrounded by fields and woods. Rolling erosion-softened mountains rise in the backgro... |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
| Date: | 01 20 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a geological formation called "Natural Bridge" in Natural Bridge State Park. |
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| Description: | Race car number 6 sponsored by National Auto Elec. The body of the car was built by the Ideal Body Company. A man wearing a helmet and goggles is sitting i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Rock formations at Congress Hall on the Dell View Resort property. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down a narrow wooden walkway through rock formations at Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure titled "Soil and Moisture Conservation in the Western Plains Area." Includes the text: "Stop runoff, Reduce Erosion and Evaporation." |
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| Description: | Entrance to Black Hawk Cave on Lake Mendota, allegedly the hiding place of Chief Black Hawk. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A rock formation named Monument Rock. The base of the rock has been painted with graffiti. |
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