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Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
Postcard

Old Light House at Long Tail Point

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Old Light House at Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Built in 1859. A marshy area is in the foreground, and a long pier leads to the new li...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Map or Atlas

Agricultural and Dairy Lands in Reliable Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This early 20th century map shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, roads, lakes, wetlands, and streams in the western Sawyer County town...
Photograph

Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
Photograph

Draining Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
Photograph

Men in Plowed Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh.
Photograph

Plowing on Horicon Marsh

Date: 10 1914
Description: View of furrowed ground in Horicon Marsh and men on a tractor in the process of plowing a drained portion of the marsh.
Map or Atlas

Suggestive Plan for Madison, a Model City

Date: 1910
Description: Shows existing and proposed parks, railroads, and marshes in a color coded key. "Contour interval 20 feet." Lake Wingra, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona are ...
Photograph

Hunters on the Pond

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards a group of seven men posing on a dock in front of a small hunting shack in the middle of a marsh. Ducks hang on stringers attache...
Photograph

Group of People in Field with Crashed Airplane

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view across stream in marshy area towards a group of people gathered around an aircraft wreck.
Map or Atlas

Map of Lac Court Oreilles Indian Reservation

Date: 1911
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers, swamps, state swamp land, trails and railroads. Includes a township diagram.
Map or Atlas

Map of Red Cliff Indian Reservation

Date: 1912
Description: This map shows a school reserve, swamp land, railroads, and selected buildings.
Photograph

Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians Picking Cranberries

Date: 1913
Description: Panoramic slightly elevated view of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians harvesting cranberries by hand at Gebhart's Marsh.
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of Fox Lake

Date: 1912
Description: Bird's-eye view of downtown Fox Lake, with a marshy area and the lake in the background. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Fox Lake, Wis."
Photograph

A Moose

Date: 1914
Description: A moose grazing in Mud Lake, near McFarland Lake.
Photograph

A Canoe on Shore

Date: 08 1916
Description: Elevated view looking down at a canoe on the shoreline of the Chippewa River as The Gang takes a well-earned rest.
Photograph

Moose at Lake Sturgeon

Date: 1911
Description: View from a canoe of a moose feeding in the waters of Sturgeon Lake. The prow of the canoe is in the foreground.

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