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| Date: | 05 1935 |
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| Description: | This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, state nurseries, state parks, roadside parks, prison camps, and lookout to... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, national forests, county forests, state nurseries, Indian reservations, st... |
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| Description: | Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a single worker trimming neat rows of seedlings at a Wisconsin State Nursery. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a variety of evergreen trees in a nursery, including White, Norway, Scotch and Jack pines, and White and Norway spruce near Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Described on the reverse of the print as, "Four to five year old evergreen trees," young trees grow in neat rows beneath overhead irrigation pipes. The gr... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ... |
| Date: | 02 1937 |
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| Description: | This topographical map of the forest preserve shows highways, roads, trails, telephone lines, Native American reservations, Ranger sub-stations, state nurs... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Working at a counter, an unidentified man ties twine around a burlap-wrapped bundle of small everygreen trees while another man looks on. A typed caption... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are pushing an implement between guide ropes at the Central (now Griffith) State Nursery. The description on the reverse of the photograph explains... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin state official historical marker titled 'Forest Restoration, The Beginning.' The text reads: "This place on Trout Lake was selected by E.M. G... |
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