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| Date: | 07 18 1932 |
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| Description: | Marquette School children, with their drama teacher Ethel Kaump, in costumes for their play "The Fairy Woods," presented on the banks of the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 09 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Marling Lumber Company, 1801 East Washington Avenue. The Yahara River is to the right, with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 10 13 1927 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of outlet of Lake Mendota near Tenney Park and Yahara River. |
| Date: | 10 15 1927 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of outlet of Lake Mendota near Tenney Park and Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 20 1929 |
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| Description: | Railroad tracks and waterway outside International Harvester's Deering Works. The Deering Works was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Chicago's Wacker Drive at Clark Street, looking north. Buildings, water towers and railroad boxcars are along the Chicago River waterfront, as well as a Co... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1912 |
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| Description: | Wreck of a Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie Railroad train on a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The damage is so severe that the cars have ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The municipal sand-bottomed swimming pool was a popular spot to cool off in the summer months. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of men standing on the bridge over west branch of the Wolf River. They are constructing the Wisconsin & Northern railroad bridge. |
| Date: | 04 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Soo Line train crossing a bridge over the Black River near Withee. The three x's indicate places where the bridge had been damaged by ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a railroad train crossing a bridge over the famous White River near Ashland. In the foreground is an open automobile crossing the ri... |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
| Date: | 09 14 1963 |
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| Description: | The Marathon Paper Corporation plant along the historic Fox River canal. |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground. |
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