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Off For a Thrilling Skyride (Tobogganing)

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Description: Two men and a woman sit on a toboggan in midair while riding down a snow-covered hill.
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Skiing

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Description: Skiers move down a snow-covered slope with trees lining either side.
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Skiing

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Description: Four skiers start down a snow-covered slope while others look on.
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Ski Tow

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Description: Several skiers are pulled up a snow-covered hill by a ski tow while several others wait in line and another skier looks on from the hill.
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses on snowshoes at the base of a bluff. The Hotz cottage complex, built in 1912-3, is seen atop the bluff. The complex included three co...
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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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Blackhawk Ski Club Ski Jump Tourney

Date: 01 26 1958
Description: Ski jumper Dale Severson of Eau Claire is shown (center right) flying and leaning high over the Tomahawk Ridge ski jump. Spectators and parked cars are in ...
Map or Atlas

Lake Geneva Wisconsin and Big Foot Beach State Park, Wisconsin Conservation Department

Date: 1959
Description: This map of Lake Geneva has relief shown by contours and water depths shown by isolines. The map includes an index of schools, churches, public services, i...
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Bob Immens, Chicago, Ski Jumper

Date: 02 14 1960
Description: Bob Immens, Chicago, takes off from ski jump at the Blackhawk Ski Club ski jumping event held at Tomahawk Ridge.
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Ice Fishing on Salmo Pond

Date: 01 1954
Description: Three people ice fishing on Salmo Pond near Black Earth.
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Ice Fishing on Salmo Pond

Date: 01 1954
Description: Harvey Gifford, of 2541 East Johnson Street in Madison, chops a hole in the ice on Salmo Pond near Back Earth in preparation for ice fishing, where he thin...
Postcard

The Fourth Annual Ski Tournament

Date: 1910
Description: View looking up towards a ski jumper airborne over the top edge of a hill as a large crowd is looking on from the sides. The top of the ski jump scaffold i...
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Boy Skiers at Ski Meet

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Winter scene with boys on skis preparing to compete at the first ski tournament in Stoughton, Wisconsin, possibly in ski jumping.
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Skiers about to Ski Down Slope

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Description: Winter scene looking down a hill towards skiers about to ski on the Capital Mississippi Alps near La Crosse, Wisconsin. La Crosse is in the background, and...
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Scouts II Olympics Vehicle

Date: 1976
Description: View up ski hill towards people standing near a Scout II in the snow. One man sits on a Quiet Flite Evinrude snowmobile near a man holding a pair of Head s...
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Scouts II Olympics Vehicle

Date: 1976
Description: View from front of two people in a Scout driving through deep snow There are skis in the ski rack on the roof. Mountains are in the background. A woman is ...
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Scandinavia Ski Team Posing in the Snow

Date: 1922
Description: Scandinavia Ski Team, all men, are posing in a row with their skis propped on their shoulders. In the background is a snow-covered hill and trees.
Map or Atlas

Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1962
Description: This colored map represents "Tour #1" of a series of driving tours of the state published by the Sperry & Hutchinson Company, in order to "help you enjoy W...
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Skibobbing on Rib Mountain

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Description: View of a boy and girl at the top of a snow-covered hill sitting on skibobs, ready to go down the hill.
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First Snowfall at Sherman Terrace

Date: 11 26 1953
Description: Trying out their sleds are Judy Stanley and Wendy Wanda.

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