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| Description: | Elevated view of a variety of evergreen trees in a nursery, including White, Norway, Scotch and Jack pines, and White and Norway spruce near Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station." |
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| Description: | Forest area that once furnished employment for settlers, but through lack of reforestation was considered almost worthless at the time this image was creat... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Barracks buildings at the Crystal Lake Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View of an automobile parked along the side of the road during a scenic drive through virgin forest near Lac du Flambeau. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Boulder Lake surrounded by trees. Caption reads: "Boulder Junction, Wisconsin." |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view downhill towards an intersection in the north woods. Three cars are driving away up the hill on the other side of the intersecti... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | View of front of vertical log barn. Probably built in the late 19th century. It has a louvered cupola or ventilator, T-crossed barn doors and three glass w... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards the new boat house constructed of Norway pine logs at Trout Lake. It is part of the forest ranger complex. Caption reads: "Boa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across water of the east shore of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "East Shore. Trout Lake, Vilas Co. Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Trout Lake Forest Headquarters, the deer corral, with four fawns. Three of the fawns are eating from a trough, the third from a pail held by a man (partial... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of garden plots at the state nursery at Trout Lake. Young pines must be grown for two years in the nursery before being planted. In this phot... |
| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight. The marker text reads: "FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI... |
| Date: | 03 22 1913 |
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| Description: | A photographic postcard mailed from Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. A railroad track is running along the bank. On either side of the track are tall trees. Ca... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a stand of tall trees in the forest at Trout Lake. A hat is hanging on the trunk of a tree in the center. |
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