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Map of Clintonville

Date: 1889
Description: A plat map of Clintonville.
Postcard

West End, Long Lake

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "West End, Long Lake, Saxeville, Wis." View of a lake with marshland plants in the foreground. A dock, boat and trees are on the right...
Postcard

State Capitol as seen from Quiet Marsh

Date: 
Description: View of Madison from a marsh on the west end of the University of Wisconsin campus.
Photograph

Family Outing

Date: 1975
Description: A family of ducks swimming across a wetlands area. In the foreground reeds extending above the waterline.
Photograph

Duck Hunter

Date: 10 1968
Description: A duck hunter with his gun on his shoulder navigates a marsh using swamp skis. Another hunter is standing in the background.
Photograph

Spring

Date: 1965
Description: A Red-Winged Blackbird singing while perched on a cattail spike in the Horicon Marsh.
Photograph

Man by River's Edge

Date: 10 04 1906
Description: A man is sitting on a rock by a river's edge under trees. Vicinity of Chicago.
Photograph

UD-18A — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-18A — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Delta Securities Co., Inc., Raceland, La. Used with Worthin...
Photograph

On the Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: View from shoreline looking towards two women wearing large hats who are sitting in a carriage drawn by a matched team of horses. The carriage has stopped ...
Photograph

Lotus Bed, Turtle Lake

Date: 08 1922
Description: View of marshland with numerous lotus plants. A forest is in the distance.
Photograph

Lotus Bed, Turtle Lake

Date: 08 1922
Description: View of a field of plants, including many lotus plants. Buildings are on a low hill in the background on the right.
Photograph

Ice Age National Scientific Reserve (Proposed), Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: View across marshland and water toward a low, wooded hill. Caption reads: "Across the State of Wisconsin the continental glaciation left a belt of conspicu...
Photograph

Bleak November

Date: 1950
Description: View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and...
Photograph

Duck Hunting

Date: 10 10 1936
Description: As described on the negative envelope, an unidentified man is standing in his boat, "Shooting at a flock of mallards at Lake Partridge near Fremont on the ...
Photograph

Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 09 02 1966
Description: The caption on the reverse of this print explains: "Indians harvesting wild rice. Man poles rice boat while wife uses cedar ricing sticks and strips grain ...
Print

Duck Shooting on Lake Winnebago Near Fond du Lac, Wis.

Date: 1858
Description: Engraved print of four men and a dog in a boat on Lake Winnebago. Two of the men are in the center of the boat holding hunting rifles, while one man is sta...
Postcard

Fisherman's Shacks in Door County

Date: 1940
Description: Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Dodge County Farm

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view from hill of chickens ranging near their coop behind a farmhouse and outbuildings on a tidy farm. There is a large barn on the right with two...
Photograph

Man with a Carp

Date: 
Description: A man is holding up a carp with his hands (classified by the DNR as a rough fish).
Photograph

Bass Lake

Date: 1958
Description: Reeds and lily pads growing in the waters of Bass Lake. Trees line the far shoreline.

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