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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
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| Description: | View along shoreline showing the wide sandy swimming beach along Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park. Two people are on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men with shotguns, accompanied by two dogs, hunting in a grassy field. There is a row of trees and utility poles in the background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A stone weir has been built on a meandering river to improve it for fish habitat. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, looking north, from Mt. Hosmer, with tall bluffs on the far (Wisconsin) side of the Mississippi River. There are multiple sloughs and island... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards two men and two women in bathing suits standing and holding hands while standing in shallow water as a small wave breaks around... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men and women standing in small groups outside the brick Forest Protection Headquarters building of the Wisconsin Conservation D... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The sign marking the location of the shot tower smelter. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, probably H.M. Phelps, posing with his right hand resting on the massive trunk of a bur oak which grew on the Phelps farm three miles w... |
| Date: | 09 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Peninsula State Park. |
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| Description: | A man in a plaid jacket is feeding a bottle of milk to a fawn. |
| Date: | 10 1936 |
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| Description: | Fire lookout station at Mercer ranger station. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographic postcard described on the reverse: "A black bear in the Wisconsin north woods." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Smokey Bear cub with a fire-prevention poster bearing his namesake. The poster has three bears, and the text reads: "Please Folks, be extra careful this ye... |
| Date: | 09 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip Fox La Follette (center) together with Governors Horner (Illinois) and Kraschel (Iowa) pose in front of the fish they caught during a fishi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Copper Falls on the Bad River. Four people, one man and three women, are posing on rocks at the top of the falls. Surrounding burned-over ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An adult porcupine is climbing a branch of a downed tree. |
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