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| Description: | Men with horse-drawn load of lumber with a little girl standing in front. |
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| Description: | Grass meadow with rotting tree stumps, possibly after a fire. |
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| Description: | Cutover Norway Pine lands showing character of restocking and scattered trees. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery. |
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| Description: | Fire lookout station in Northern Wisconsin forest next to tall trees. |
| Date: | 01 01 1934 |
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| Description: | Man in uniform leaning up against the base of a large tree. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a wide path through trees in the spring or summer. |
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| Description: | A field of tree stumps beginning to be overgrown with vegetation. |
| Date: | 03 24 1913 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a canoe on the St. Croix River with wooded areas on both sides within the Interstate State Park. Established in 1900, Interstate Park was... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of houses and buildings in Wonewoc. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Hoyt Park including the surrounding neighborhoods. Resurrection Cemetery can be seen at the upper right of the image. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A color, pictorial map. Scale: 10 miles to the inch. Shows state parks and forests, proposed state parkways, proposed state monuments and memorials, nation... |
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| Description: | Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from the top of the Wisconsin Central Railroad White River bridge. |
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