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Girl Climbing Rocks at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1938
Description: A girl climbing over the rocks at Devil's Lake State Park against a scenic view of the lake and surrounding areas.
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Virginia Mueller

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Description: Virginia Mueller stands on a dune with her hands on her hips. In the far background is a valley with trees and fields.
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Snowshoeing

Date: 02 1924
Description: Winter scene with an unidentified man pausing while snowshoeing. He carries a long walking stick.
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Pioneer Days

Date: 09 1996
Description: "As we approach Firemen's Park, we are at the end of our ride."
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Children Playing

Date: 1935
Description: Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ...
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Ensemble of the Diggings at Ali Bacha

Date: 03 23 1927
Description: Ensemble of diggings at Ali Bacha. View looking downhill towards three men working on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left an indig...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Selma Eidsmoe

Date: 1935
Description: Selma Eidsmoe, wearing knickers and a head scarf, poses holding a gun over her shoulder. She is standing on a bluff above the Pecatonica River valley. She ...
Photograph

Blue Mound State Park

Date: 09 07 2014
Description: View from the top of a hill looking out to a valley, with clouds in the blue sky. Trees are framing the view, and in the foreground, a woman, the photograp...
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Chevrolet Coupe

Date: 1927
Description: Forest Middleton, sitting in the driver's seat, embracing his wife Leonore who is standing outside the car, leaning against the door of the 1927 Chevrolet ...
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Wyalusing State Park

Date: 08 1940
Description: View looking down towards a woman wearing a striped dress and holding a purse standing at a low stone wall at the Point Lookout observation area above the ...
Photograph

The Hiker

Date: 1935
Description: A young man wearing a hat, short pants, and a rucksack is standing atop a high rock formation looking down at Devil's Lake. There are wooded bluffs in the ...
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Horseback Riding

Date: 1940
Description: View towards a line of several dozen men and women, in equestrian attire and on horseback, riding single file up a hill from a large arena style building s...
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Skiing

Date: 1965
Description: A group of women skiers, one wearing ski boots but no skis, are standing on the slope of a hill just above an A-frame lodge. Cars are parked in the parkin...
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Skiing

Date: 1965
Description: Three skiers, two men and a woman, are admiring the view from the top of a ski hill. There is an A-frame ski lodge in the valley below, as well as a parkin...
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Foxhounds

Date: 08 1931
Description: Two unidentified men wearing traditional hunting dress, including hunt caps, are riding horses with a pack of foxhounds in a rocky meadow. There is a fence...
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Tobogganing

Date: 1924
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder is pulling his two sons, Herbert Edmund, center, and Philip George, left, on a toboggan in a snowy, rolling landscape. The two boys ar...
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Marion Brumder

Date: 1932
Description: A full length outdoor portrait of Marion Briggs (Mrs. Edward J.) Brumder. She is sitting on a rock with woods in the background, and she is wearing a hat, ...
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Children on Horseback

Date: 1905
Description: A woman at far left is holding the rope halter of a horse. A young girl and toddler are sitting bareback on the horse. The girl is wearing a light-colored ...
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John Ford and Tim Holt

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Description: Director John Ford walks next to actor Tim Holt who is riding a horse on the set of the 1939 film Stagecoach. Ford wears a beret and light colored jacket,...

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