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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and girl are posing on the drive leading to a brick house behind mature pines. The house was built in the 1890's by General Walter Ca... |
| Date: | 06 01 1936 |
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| Description: | Bridge and truck trail constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workmen to facilitate forest fire prevention and control. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men stand at the base of the White Pine tree reported in 1945 to be the largest in the world at 16.8' in circumference and 140.42' in height. Larger sp... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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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... |
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| Description: | Men loading back pumps and fire fighting equipment onto a truck at Park Falls Ranger Station in preparation for answering a forest fire call. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The largest white pine tree standing in America, with several people posing beneath it. Its estimated age is 350-years-old. |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | This satellite image of Chippewa County, Wisconsin, documents the land use and land cover of the county as recorded June 11, 1992. Accompanying text descri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard hospital marker that reads: "Old Fort Howard • 1816 • This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine by the ri... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The 45th parallel of north latitude marker, marking halfway between the equator and the north pole. The marker is located on Highway 141, three miles north... |
| Date: | 06 22 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy using a truck to harvest reed canary grass. |
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| Description: | A scenic view looking down at Devil's Lake from the bluffs of Devil's Lake State Park. A bench is in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View upriver of the rapids above Tyler Falls at Copper Falls State Park. In the distance you can see a bridge across the river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl posed inside of the Elephant Cave in the east bluffs at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View through birch trees looking down at two men fishing from a rowboat near the shoreline. Another boat is tethered to the shore nearby. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of crew members standing and sitting on the deck of the ore boat Captain Thomas Wilson in Ashland harbor. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing bib overalls is posing on a pier holding a large trout. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "An 8½ lb. trout taken fro... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Eau Claire River flowing between block-like rock formations downstream from a stone bridge in the Dells of the Eau Claire Cou... |
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