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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1936
Description: A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ...
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Guide Dog Training School

Date: 08 1958
Description: Gypsy, a guide dog at the Cambridge Double-A Guiding Dogs, Inc. School, walks next to his trainer, Burlee Rowe. Rowe is blindfolded to demonstrate his fait...
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Grazing Cow

Date: 1940
Description: Cow grazing in a pasture. Taken from The Writer's Program to be used as an illustration for "Wisconsin: a Guide to the Badger State."
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On the Trail

Date: 09 1934
Description: A male guide on the left is using a walking stick to point out a feature in the rocks atop a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park, as a group of men on the rig...
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Caged Polar Bear

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Description: A polar bear in its cage at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). This is one of many photographs made by Harold Hone to illustrate "Wisconsin: A Guide to...
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Aerial Seeding

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Description: A person is standing in the middle of a field covered with downed tree branches holding a red balloon to guide the airplane flying towards him. The plane i...
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Guide Dog Training School

Date: 08 1958
Description: Gypsy, a guide dog at the Cambridge Double-A Guiding Dogs, Inc. School, and her trainer, Burlee Rowe, demonstrating how dogs are taught to pick up an artic...
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Guide Dog Training School

Date: 08 1958
Description: Gypsy, a guide dog at the Cambridge Double-A Guiding Dogs, Inc. school with trainer, Burlee Rowe, demonstrates how the dogs are taught to pick up an articl...
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Fort Wayne Works Tour

Date: 06 1937
Description: A Fort Wayne Works guide points to truck parts as he conducts a tour through the International Harvester factory for a service school group.
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Plaque

Date: 1936
Description: A view of a plaque, located near the entrance to the "main building" on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Vilas Park Zoo Scene

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Description: Children and adults visiting the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). This is one of many images taken by Harold Hone to illustrate "Wisconsin: A Guide to th...
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Dells of the Wisconsin River

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Dells of the Wisconsin River, with two people walking down a long dock/walkway leading to a boat.
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Chicago & Northwestern Locomotive

Date: 1938
Description: A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge.
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Seagulls

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Description: A view of seagulls along the rocky shore of one of the Great Lakes.
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Poling a Canoe

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the negative envelope reads: "David Sample, guide at Brule, Wisconsin, taking a tourist down the fast moving waters of the Brule River."...
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Launch Towing Barge-Load of Pilings to Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 03 1911
Description: A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th...
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Log Cabin

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Description: A view of a "log cabin of a pioneer". Two other log cabins are visible in the background.
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Control Gates

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Description: A view of the control gates on the federal floor control dam on the Mississippi River, in the La Crosse vicinity.
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Horse Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view over crowd of a horse pulling contest at a county fair. A man is sitting on the back of a truck bed driving two horses on what appears to be ...
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German Brown Trout

Date: 1936
Description: A view of freshly caught German Brown Trout, lying near a net and fishing pole.

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