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East Shore Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: View across water of the east shore of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "East Shore. Trout Lake, Vilas Co. Wis."
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Planting Camp North End of Trout Lake

Date: 05 1911
Description: Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake Headquarters

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Description: Trout Lake Headquarters at completion.
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Group of Children on Trout Lake

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Description: Group of children wearing ice skates standing together on Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake Nursery?

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Description: View across field of small trees, perhaps at Trout Lake. There are small buildings in the background.
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Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View from shoreline of three people canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Barn at Trout Lake

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Description: View towards front of a barn at Trout Lake. There is a fence in the foreground.
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Family Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View across water towards a family of three canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View from shoreline through trees towards a family canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake

Date: 1939
Description: View across water towards the shoreline of Trout Lake. There is a thin, sandy beach, and trees all along the curved shoreline.
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Main Building: Wisconsin State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger ...
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Nursery: Wisconsin State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of garden plots at the state nursery at Trout Lake. Young pines must be grown for two years in the nursery before being planted. In this phot...
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Four Scenes on Postcard

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Description: Four scenes of Trout Lake. The top left shows a man surveying on the shoreline of a lake. Handwritten text reads: "PA. MacDonald, Trout Lake 1910." The top...
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Trout Lake Timber

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard of a stand of tall trees in the forest at Trout Lake. A hat is hanging on the trunk of a tree in the center.
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Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Dr. Birge at Trout Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Caption reads: "Dr. Birge, probably at Trout Lake." He is sitting in a car. There is a boat covered by a tarp on a trailer behind the car. A lake is in the...
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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
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Feeding Deer in the Deer Corral at Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: Trout Lake Forest Headquarters, the deer corral, with four fawns. Three of the fawns are eating from a trough, the third from a pail held by a man (partial...
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First Forestry Building at Trout Lake Headquarters

Date: 1911
Description: The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progres...
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Snowshoeing-Trout Lake

Date: 1948
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake.

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