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Children Sitting on Rocks at the Jaws

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Description: Jaws, from Stone Pile. Two children wearing straw hats are sitting on rocks in the foreground. A canoe is pulled up on a sandy bank in the background.
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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...
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Ho-Chunk Man Paddling Canoe

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Description: Ho-Chunk man in a canoe on a river holding up an oar. Just out of frame on the left is a woman, who is perhaps holding a child.
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Syl and Papa on Easter Morning

Date: 04 04 1901
Description: Syl and his father on Easter morning stand outdoors near trees in front of a small blanket set with eggs, candy, and a toy bunny and pig. In the background...
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Syl Carving his Name in Tree

Date: 03 10 1902
Description: Syl, wearing a sailor suit and cap, carves his name into a tree. To the left is a deck suspended over a steep hill. Below is a lake or river.
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Syl Sawing Wood

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Description: Syl sawing wood from the hull of an overturned rowboat on a small sawhorse. Behind him is a deck overhanging a steep cliff with a river or lake below. A ho...
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Mink Trapping on the Wolf River

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Description: A hunter, sporting cold weather attire and thigh-high rubber boots, pulls a mink in a trap off the shoreline and on to his small, motorized, fishing boat. ...
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Break on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers rest by a river in Oriente Province while on patrol during the Cuban Revolution. They are sitting on a rocky bank of the riv...
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The Old Bridge

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Description: "The old bridge on North Pole Road serves as a backdrop for Brenda & Kay Widmer & their mother, Shirley."
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LaVerne Sterr

Date: 1949
Description: "LaVerne Sterr."
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John Edmunds' Charter Oak Grist Mill

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Description: view of a woman, two girls, and a boy posed on the porch of a two-story wooden building, probably the John Edmunds' Charter Oak grist mill built on Squaw C...
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John Edmunds' Charter Oak Grist Mill

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Description: Two girls and a boy posed by a tree in front of a two-story wooden building, probably the John Edmunds' Charter Oak grist mill built on Squaw Creek in 1866...
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Mink River

Date: 1923
Description: An unidentified man poses near a makeshift pier on the Mink River. A small boat with outboard motor is tied to the pier. The photographer's son Fedy (Ferd...
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Log Dam on the Black River

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Description: Seven men posed sitting and standing on a log dam a hundred yards north of a railroad bridge crossing the Black River. Remnants of each end still exist.
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Three Men Fishing

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Description: Three fishermen and a black dog sit on a log overhanging a river. One man is reeling in a fish and another holds his catch. The man in the middle is holdin...
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Dam on Rock River

Date: 03 1990
Description: "A huge build-up of foam occurred below the dam on the Rock River."
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Fishing on Rock River

Date: 08 1998
Description: "Anglers try their luck on the Rock River (L-R): Logan Wilz, Joe Wilz, Carly Hren, and Chelsey Wilz."
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1890
Description: View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ...
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Driving Crew on the Logs

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Description: Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the...
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Michigan Lumbering Scene

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Description: View over water of Michigan lumbering scene, where men roll logs into the river. The group of men are posed holding peaveys and cant hooks or peaveys, tool...

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