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| Date: | 11 05 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "The Menominee, Wauwatosa, Wis." The Menominee River flowing through a park-like area. The right bank appears eroded, the left ban... |
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| Description: | View of a sand cliff and beach. Trees are growing at the top of the cliff, with exposed roots from erosion. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Black River after the 1911 flood. Severely eroded banks are on the left. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the Black River after the 1911 flood. The banks are eroded, and power lines are downed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the erosion caused by the 1911 Flood in Black River Falls. Houses are hanging off the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of damage to buildings after the 1911 flood of the Black River. Wooden debris is floating in the flood water and encroaching the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of damage from the 1911 flood of the Black River. An entire wall of a building is gone, and debris is along the river banks. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of four women and a man standing on the back steps of a building. On the right is a woman standing on a wooden walkway with a railin... |
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| Description: | View of a dirt field showing signs of wind erosion. Farm buildings, a fence and fields are in the distance. |
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| Description: | Three young people are standing on Rabbit Rock, two of them in the foreground, and one on top of the taller peak. Highway 13 is below in the background. |
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| Description: | A man relaxing in a canoe on a river or lake. Behind him is a rock formation covered with trees. |
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| Description: | View between trees of a lake with high rock walls on one side. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Terracing on Ellis Street during the winter. Two automobiles are parked alongside the road in the foreground. The terraced hill is snow covered, and a chur... |
| Date: | 01 20 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a geological formation called "Natural Bridge" in Natural Bridge State Park. |
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| Description: | Race car number 6 sponsored by National Auto Elec. The body of the car was built by the Ideal Body Company. A man wearing a helmet and goggles is sitting i... |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape featuring a rural city center with a prominent courthouse surrounded by fields and woods. Rolling erosion-softened mountains rise in the backgro... |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
| Date: | 10 1929 |
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| Description: | A man standing on a horse-drawn wagon is using a pitchfork to move hay into a field gully blocked with wood. Another man is standing behind the wagon. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure titled "Soil and Moisture Conservation in the Western Plains Area." Includes the text: "Stop runoff, Reduce Erosion and Evaporation." |
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