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Quarry at Devil's Lake
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A worker is pulling a wheelbarrow behind him while walking alongside a narrow gauge railroad track at the south end of the East Bluff near Devil's Lake. Empty cars are sitting on the track in the background at the base of a an exposed rocky bluff. There is another set of tracks on the right. A train engine is in the distance. There are other workers in the background.
July 1936
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CCC Camp in Winter
1935
Elevated view, from the South Bluff, of the CCC camp at Devil's Lake State Park. There is a rock outcropping in the foreground on the left. South Shore Road passes in front of the camp. There are m...
Trail Ride
1940
Two women and a man (a fourth rider is hidden) on horseback are enjoying the view from a bluff in Devil's Lake State Park. The Devil's Doorway rock formation is in the distance. The tip of Devil's ...
The Hiker
1935
A young man wearing a hat, short pants, and a rucksack is standing atop a high rock formation looking down at Devil's Lake. There are wooded bluffs in the background.
Paper Mill
January 1936
Two large smokestacks rise from the 1903 building of the Rhinelander Paper Company. Railroad tracks are crossing the left foreground diagonally; a second set of tracks are curving off to the right....
Sand Mine
July 1936
A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine.
Camping at Devil's Lake
1919
Elevated view of the Herman Taylor family camping at Devil's Lake. There is a moving train in the background on railroad tracks along the shoreline of the lake.
