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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a couple in a 1971 International Scout pickup crossing a small creek, as another couple is following behind on horseback. |
| Date: | 07 1974 |
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| Description: | Nelson takes time out during a campaign trip to talk with two boys. Dressed casually, Nelson is shown squatting down in a marsh area between the boys who a... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | The bathing beach and bath house at Copper Falls State Park. Two swimmers are sitting and standing on a dock with a platform. |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two boys and two girls swimming at the Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. One of the girls is diving off the dock that also has a platform. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Aunt Helen and Syl standing on an overlook at River Park. Behind them is a bridge spanning a wide river. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of ice skaters at River Park. Some of the skaters are formed into a large circle. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, wearing his characteristic attire, on a trip on the Upper Churchill River. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson and friends canoeing on the Lower Churchill River. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas during a canoe trip with conservationist Sigurd F. Olson. He is sitting with his hat in hand beside a canoe pulled... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Turtle flowage near the Turtle Dam on the Flambeau River. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a wooden bridge over the Brule River flowing through the forest. A person is on the far side of the bridge. Caption reads: "Brule Riv... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state.... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Flambeau River below the flowage dam. One man is standing in the river. A shack is visible... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | This map is intended for tourists of La Crosse. The cover features images of farms and natural land and reads: "friends are but strangers... we have yet to... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states.Information on the quality and type of any road shown (bitum... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two canoes are pulled up on the shoreline in the Flambeau River State Forest. |
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