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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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Description: We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 532-542

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Description: Every macho-mind knows exactly what
and where it is — up front, smoking
hot, born to circumstance, savage
watchman of the several thousand Rights
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 543-553

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Description: The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling,
of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside.

With the passing ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 554-561

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Description: The Winter was a legacy of crusted weights
now melted with the Passing of the Snow
so closed and callous differences can soften
to the hope for co...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 607-614

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Description: The river told them how to make the map
and
Legends later flocked the shore
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 706-712

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Description: Each little world has its private Atlas
working his ethic in longhand
toward the stage set for the point of No Return
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 758-765

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Description: Lightning cleared the air, that we could see
just how deep the rootland lay
Far below the wished for, but not beyond the Will
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 793-799

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Description: Either way, the sides are bridged,
from wine to water, cutting back to wine

Paradoxical appointments, anticipated hour —

No one event can ...
Photograph

Shoreline View of Fox River

Date: 10 12 1963
Description: View from shoreline through trees towards houses on the opposite shoreline along the Fox River.
Photograph

Pastoral Pool

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: View of a pool in a pasture through dead branches. Hummocks of wet grass and rocks cover the shore. The background is misty.
Photograph

Railroad Station

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view looking down over the railroad station district.
Photograph

World War I Artillery Piece

Date: 1962
Description: Field artillery piece of the First World War pointing across the Rock River from the grounds of the American Legion post.
Photograph

Marshland Scene

Date: 1963
Description: Long view across the marshland.
Photograph

Old and New Bridges

Date: 1963
Description: Cement and steel bridge over the Wisconsin River. Alongside are the ruined stone foundations of the former bridge.
Photograph

Rocky Glen Road View

Date: 1960
Description: View of landscape at the top of Rocky Glen Road, looking over flooded fields at sunrise.
Photograph

Sunrise on Treetops

Date: 07 04 1965
Description: Text on back of Pairing, "Sunrise on treetops along the north shore of the Wisconsin River, near Boscobel, but in Crawford County." Fog fills the middle gr...
Photograph

House Above Flood

Date: 04 1973
Description: View across water through trees towards a house above the banks of the flooded Baraboo river.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

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Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

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Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.

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