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Fisherman on a River

Date: 1942
Description: Man fishing for trout at edge of river.
Photograph

White Bass Run

Date: 1942
Description: People fishing for bass off dock.
Print

Lawrence College

Date: 1942
Description: Trees interspersed with college buildings in lower half of image, with Fox River bisecting the middle, and a few buildings across the river with open fiel...
Photograph

Keep Your Powder ...and Your Shoes Dry

Date: 11 15 1942
Description: Members of the 32nd Division crossing a river somewhere in New Guinea behind Colonel H.A. Smith, commander of the division. The much-decorated unit was or...
Photograph

Illegal Snag Line

Date: 1942
Description: Warden Kramer and his assistant in a boat removing an illegal snag line from the Wolf River.
Photograph

Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
Photograph

Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
Map or Atlas

Traveling Wisconsin's Waterways

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C...
Map or Atlas

Map of Region Around Lake Mills, Rock Lake, and Crawfish River, Wisconsin

Date: 12 25 1942
Description: This hand-drawn map shows the highways and features in the Rock Lake-Lake Mills area in the towns of Aztalan and Lake Mills, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. T...
Map or Atlas

Prairie Potawatomi Legends of the Mukwonago Lakes

Date: 11 14 1942
Description: This pictorial map illustrates Potawatomi Indian legends from the region of Lower Phantom Lake, labeled Howitt Lake on the map, Phantom Lake, and Mukwonag...
Map or Atlas

City of Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin

Date: 1942
Description: This map of Burlington shows plat of the town, city limits, section lines, 1/4 section lines of the plat sections, roads, railroads, rivers, and lakes. The...
Map or Atlas

Northern Wisconsin Lake Region, the Milwaukee Road

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows the route of the Milwaukee Road, roads, foot trails, resorts, and ranger stations. The map includes text, illustrations, a railroad fare tab...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Mendota, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows a paper city laid out in 1836 on the Wisconsin River, now the site of Wyalusing State Park, Grant County. The upper right corner includes a ...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Milwaukee : Representing Parts of Sections 32 and 33 as Divided into Lots

Date: 1942
Description: This photostat map shows roads, ferry, impassible marsh land, the Menominee River, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan.
Postcard

La Crosse, Aerial View

Date: 1942
Description: Black and white aerial view of La Crosse and the Mississippi River, including Riverside Park, the Black River and La Crosse River.
Postcard

Launching of the "Peto"

Date: 1942
Description: View of a submarine launch at the Manitowoc shipyards. Caption reads: "Launching of the "Peto", Manitowoc, Wis."
Postcard

Arrowhead Bridge

Date: 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "Arrowhead Bridge, Duluth-Superior Harbor. The bridge connected Superior, Wisconsin, with Duluth, Minnesota, over the St. Louis River....
Postcard

Big Manitou Falls

Date: 08 07 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "Big Manitou Falls, Ht. 165 Ft., Pattison State Park, Superior, Wis." The falls are on the Black River and surrounded by shrubs and ro...

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