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Part 1 (PH Series 2375): Original Collection, 1930-1942

Part 2 (PH 3451-PH 3453): Photographs, circa 1930-1942

Part 3 (2013/003, film and video): Additions, circa 1940s-1960s

Container	Title
	Part 3 (2013/003, film and video): Additions, circa 1940s-1960s Physical Description: 83 photographs, 81 slides and 74 transparencies (in 1 archives box), 56 films, and 3 videorecordings Scope and Content Note: Film and visual materials of the Wisconsin Conservation Department, circa 1940s-1960s. Film materials include 13 completed film titles from the Wisconsin Conservation Department related to forest and wildlife conservation and management; as well as outtake and miscellaneous footage on forest wildlife, hunting and fishing; and forest conservation methods. Films are arranged into completed film and outtake material. The outtake material was formed into compilation reels arranged by subject.
	Films
AE 191	Agricultural Conservation in Dane County, circa 1940s-1950s Physical Description: 16 mm, color, black and white Note: Short film focusing on agricultural conservation initiatives in Dane County principally associated with the Agricultural Adjustment Act programs and how they relate to farmer subsidies and soil erosion in the County. Includes color and black and white footage of Madison, including aerial footage of the city and scenes from the Gisholt Manufacturing Company. Photographed by J.W. Clark.
AB 736	Amik: The Beaver Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Footage of beavers showing forepaws and hindpaws of beaver, toenail, tail, use of tail in swimming. Beaver feeding, cutting trees; established runs, dam, lodge, diagram of lodge. Conservation Department employees removing beaver from a locale where they are damaging property, lowering water level around lodge, capturing beaver, and crating for transportation.
AC 350	Approved Cattle Crossing Construction Methods Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Documentary on how to properly construct cattle crossings.
	Autumn Rivers Note: Scenic views of the Pine, Pike, Flambeau, Brule, and Menominee rivers in Wisconsin. Canoeing in smooth water and rapids, portaging, camping, preparation of campfire and cooking.
AB 737	16 mm, silent, color
VBA 641	3/4-inch videocassette (U-Matic), silent, color, viewing copy
AC 359	Canoe Country Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, color Note: Film showcasing the rivers of Wisconsin and highlights recreational activities on and near the rivers, including fishing, canoeing, and camping. Rivers mentioned in the film include Peshtigo, Menomonee, Oconto, Pike, Wolf, Chippewa, Black, St. Croix, Flambeau, Namekagon, Brule, and Yellow.
	Firemen of the Forests Note: Film featuring the work of the Forest Protection Division in Wisconsin. Covers the techniques and equipment used in firefighting.
DC 707	16 mm, silent, black and white
VHA 175	VHS, silent, black and white
	The Flambeau-Turtle Flowage Note: Portrays damage to land caused by the construction of a dam in Iron County, Wisconsin, in 1926.
AC 978-AC 979	16 mm, silent, color
VHA 264	VHS, silent, color
	Forest Lands Purchased from the Tomahawk Kraft Paper Company Note: Produced Cornwell Pictures, Inc., distributed by American Forest Products Industries through cooperation of the nation's pulp and paper manufacturers.
AB 739-AB 740	16 mm silent, black and white
VHA 175 (continued)	VHS, silent, black and white
AC 364	From Trees to Paper Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, black and white Note: Shows the process of creating paper.
	Fur Farm Note: A tour of the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm in Poynette, Wisconsin; showing preparation of feed, cage design, pathological studies in the laboratory, and various animals, including raccoon, deer, fox, mink, pine marten (American sable), fisher, otter, beaver, bobcat, bear, and others.
DC 708	16 mm, silent, black and white
VBB 144	U-Matic, silent, black and white
AC 357	Future forests Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, color Note: Film about forest management in Wisconsin. Old and inferior trees are cut down so that other trees can grow stronger. Lumbering and farm wood lot management are addressed.
AB 741	Muskies for the Future Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: A film about the breeding of muskellunge in a fish hatchery before they are released into public sport waters. Includes footage of catching fish in fishnets, stripping spawn, hatchery procedures, jar incubation, eggs, fry, micro fauna, rearing ponds, introduction into the wild, sport fishing, and display of a catch.
AB 742	Pike Propagation Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: A film showing the process of artificial fish propagation of walleye pike and pike perch.
	Protectors of the Outdoors Note: A review of the official activities of Conservation Rangers, including scenes of rangers instructing Boy Scouts in forestry, checking licenses, locating and destroying illegal fish nets, apprehending out of season hunters, feeding deer in winter, ice fishing, and beaver tracking. VHA 175 is a duplicate copy of the film. AC 354 contains outtake footage from the film, including hunting/fishing featuring scenes with a [WCD?] ranger overseeing licensing and regulation.
AC 354	16 mm, silent, color
CA 514	16 mm, sound, color
VHA 175	VHS, silent, color
AC 363	Retrievers at Work Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, color Note: Film about training a retriever. Includes what to look for in a puppy and the correct procedures for training.
AE 101-AE 102	Save Those Fish Physical Description: 16 mm, separate audio and visual elements Note: Short film that explains the dangers of parasites in fish and how to combat the spread of parasitism. Edited by Elmer F. Herman; photographer, Staber W. Reese.
AC 356	Southern Vacationland Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, color Note: A brief tour of some of the state parks in Wisconsin including: Terry Andrae State Park, Kettle Moraine State Park, Cushing Memorial Park, Devil's Lake State Park, Tower Hill, First Capitol Park, Nelson Dewey Memorial Park, and Wyalusing State Park.
	Starvation Stalks the Deer Note: Run time: 58 minutes A film about a field investigation carried out from 1941 to 1944 in northern Wisconsin by the Citizens' Deer Committee to examine the causes and extent of wild deer starvation. Shown are survey members on snowshoes in the woods, pointing out types of vegetation eaten by deer, deer carcasses, and the examination of stomach contents, lungs, and bone marrow dead deer.
FE 094	16 mm, sound, color
VHA 175	VHS, silent, color
	Three Rivers of Wisconsin Note: Footage of wildlife, landscapes, and outdoor activities on the Brule, Wolf, and Flambeau Rivers in Wisconsin.
AB 743	16 mm, silent, black and white
VHA 175	VHS, silent, black and white
DD 362	Wild River Country Physical Description: 16 mm
	Outtakes and miscellaneous footage
AE 094	[Beaver story, outtakes #1-4] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Miscellaneous outtakes from a film on beavers including drawn diagram showing a beaver den, footage of a beaver munching on food in water; the exterior of a beaver den, a stream/river, a man skinning a beaver followed by shots of a woman sewing a beaver pelt and a woman modeling a beaver coat.
CC 187	[Budworms] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Close up of worms on a small sapling, men exiting an airplane and standing around, followed by measuring pine trees and spraying [insecticide?].
	[Chambers Island] Note: Footage of a controlled deer hunt during a deer reduction effort on Chambers Island in 1945. Footage shows hunting and transporting deer by boat. Footage also shows scenery including forest and coastline.
CB 002	16 mm, silent, color
VBB 144 (continued)	U-Matic, silent, color
CC 187 (continued)	[Christmas trees] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Young family picking out a Christmas tree at a tree farm, cutting it down and dragging it. Next scene shows a living room, putting decorations on the tree with the mother handing bulbs to the kids and they put them on the tree or give them to the father to put up.
AB 738	[Collecting Lake Trout Spawn] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: A film about the spawning habits of lake trout and the methods used by the Wisconsin Conservation Department in collecting spawn.
	[Copper Falls] Note: Shots of people swimming and hiking along the Brule River in northwest Wisconsin. Copper Falls and rapids are seen.
AC 367	16 mm, silent, color
VBC 279	U-Matic, silent, color
CC 187 (continued)	[Copper Falls] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Aerial views and views of the falls. Woman on rocks by Copper Falls and shots of stairs and hiking trails.
AE 192	[Corn husking], circa 1937-1938 Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of corn husking competitions, shucking and weighing, and field plowing. Some of the names on the wagons include W.C. Halverson (Dane County), Louis Schaflouck (Walworth County), and State Champion Omar Koopman. Footage also includes aerial shots of corn fields, marching bands and farm equipment; displays for Farm Credit Administration and Renk's hybrid corn.
	[Deer] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color and black and white
AE 095	Deer yards, outtakes #1-2 Note: Scenes of deer in deer yards managed by the WCD. Includes footage of a man cutting down a tree with chainsaw, men bailing hay and feed into a yard, dead deer being cut up, snowshoeing in the forests.
AE 095 (continued)	Deer outtakes #1-2 Note: Outtakes of deer in the woods including a buck in a stream and shots of a group of deer.
	[Ducks/geese] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
AE 096	Geese, Princess Point Note: Ducks and geese in flight at Princess Point near Whitewater in southeastern Wisconsin.
AE 096 (continued)	Ducks, Arboretum Note: Scenes of mallard ducks and geese swimming and flying. Likely in late fall or early spring with snow on the ground. Also contains footage of a man shooting film with a camera.
AC 358	[DNR Square Dancing] Physical Description: 1 film reel of 1; silent, color; 16 mm arch positive Note: Silent footage of speakers addressing an unknown audience. A square dancing demonstration is shown.
CC 187 (continued)	[Fish catch] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Man unloading cooler full of fish on ice and men lining them up on brown paper. Shots of campsite with tents.
	[Fish trapping] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
AE 097	Rush Lake Note: Men with nets along a lake live-trapping fish. Men with yellow rubber jackets and pants pour fish into a tank. Panning shot of a field (lake?) of snow.
AE 097 (continued)	Fish trapping Note: Men in stream with boxed nets; men standing around and miscellaneous footage of a stream; fishermen in marshy area along stream; fileting fish, examining mud followed by more trapping, catching, and fileting.
CC 187 (continued)	[Forest management] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color/black and white Note: Color footage of a cleared forest; planting seeds, growing pines and miscellaneous forest view; black and white footage of measuring a stacked pile of timber. Color footage of stream fishing; forest crop lands in Vilas County and men strapping a dead deer to a car.
CC 187 (continued)	[Grass fire] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of a grass fire.
AC 373	[Kenosha tourist center] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Man being interview; map of the state of Wisconsin; men and women assisting people at an information desk; exterior shots of the tourist center.
	[Ice fishing] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
CC 186	Frogmen Note: Distant shots of people, a man making a hole in the ice, ice fishing, and men in scuba gear.
CC 186 (continued)	Mississippi River, 1957 Note: Miscellaneous footage of people ice fishing.
CC 186 (continued)	Ice fishing, Kettle Moraine Note: Men with saws and axes cutting brush.
CC 186 (continued)	Kettle Moraine, workprint Note: People ice fishing and a ranger asking for a license followed by him counting fish. Miscellaneous footage at the end of three hunters holding a large (dead) white rabbit.
CC 186 (continued)	Ice fishing Note: Car in background with a group of men around a large hole in the ice with a net. Hauling lots of fish, weighing and measuring, releasing fish back into lake. Footage of gutting fishing and weighing organs, sampling and close-ups of fish with growths on them.
AC 366	[Lake trout] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of a trout swimming with a ruler on the bottom of the screen to show size. Also contains miscellaneous footage of fish [in tanks?].
AC 371	[Lake Trout Fishing] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Miscellaneous footage of lake trout fishing likely on the great lakes. Includes footage of rock formations, the lakeshore, fishing boats and men fishing.
AC 361	[Log sawing contest] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Winter scenes of cars pulling into Mickey's Wheel Inn, miscellaneous shots of people and groups, many men wearing red and black plaid clothing, and a large group watching a log sawing contest.
CC 187 (continued)	[Madison, Wisconsin], negative print Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Miscellaneous footage of Madison. Includes shots of a parking lot, freight trains, a car with Wisconsin license plate (1952), and the state capitol building.
AC 370	[Maple Syrup] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of various stages in the production of maple syrup. The original Conservation Department copy was replaced by a better copy (AC 370) from the Fritz Albert papers. Provenance: Fritz Albert Papers.
CC 187 (continued)	[Maple syrup time] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Man heating a large stove and footage of sap collecting using a horse drawn sled.
	[Pheasants and pheasant hunting] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white and color
FH 242	Outtakes #1-4 Note: Scenes of pheasant hunting including hunting with dogs and retrieving birds; pheasant nests with eggs, close ups of an adult pheasant on a nest, hatchlings, chicks being weighed, chicks in chicken coop and juvenile birds.
FH 242 (continued)	Pheasants Note: Footage of a field and bird's nest with eggs; close ups of the bird and chicks using a hat for scale; young/juvenile birds in coop, man holding one, and tagging.
FH 242 (continued)	Pheasant hunting, Mazomanie Note: Color footage of two hunters and a dog in a field hunting pheasants.
AC 355	[Pheasant hunting in Wisconsin] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Color footage showing pheasants being raised on farms for game management.
	[Point Beach State Forest historical film] Note: Amateur photography of the Wisconsin Wildlife Refuge, campgrounds and scenery at Point Beach State Forest from approximately 1938-1939 when the park was acquired and opened. Footage includes scenes of the forest and wildlife, entrances, camping and picnicking areas; facility buildings, Rawley Point and lighthouse; as well as park visitors and views of the shoreline. Of particular interest are scenes of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers conducting road construction, tree and stump removal, bird releasing and tree re-planting.
CC 671	16 mm, sound, color and black and white
VDA 320	DVD, sound, color and black and white
AE 193	[PSA on state-wide grasshopper infestation], circa 1930s-1940s Physical Description: 16 mm, sound, black and white Note: A public service announcement regarding a state-wide grasshopper infestation; as well as a note regarding intent to cut hay fields for a second and third crop.
	[Public hunting]
AE 098	[Public hunting movie, outtakes #1-2] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Father and son on a hunting trip, footage includes hunting on farmer's land, asking permission, and hunting in public hunting area. There are scenes of a game warden checking hunting licenses, a farmer posting a “no trespassing” sign. Pan shots of farmland cows and a farmer setting a grassfire. A close up of a nest and eggs and a pheasant sitting in nest and flying away. Long shot of river running and digging an irrigation ditch.
AE 099	[Public hunting grounds] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Cuts of hunters preparing to go hunting. Observing “no hunting” signs. Warden checks hunter's kill. Brief shot of the Chequamegon National Forest in winter.
	[Rabbit hunting] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
AE 100	Stites #1-2, [Wilbur Stites?] Note: First reel shows two men hunting with dogs in a snowy field and includes slow motion footage of rabbit running from dogs. Second reel is also hunting during the winter with dogs. Also includes slow motion footage and two men holding rabbits that they've caught. Note of box said “Stites,” [Wilbur Stites] who was an employee of the WCD and producer of “Wisconsin Outdoors” radio and television shows.
AE 100 (continued)	Outtakes #1-2 Note: Shooting rabbits in a snowy field with dogs. Largely slow motion footage of dogs chasing down rabbits but some normal shots of hunters.
AE 100 (continued)	Fort Atkinson, 1952 Note: Winter hunting with dogs.
CC 187 (continued)	[School project], 1955 Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Miscellaneous footage of children on a bus.
AC 369	[Sheltered acres] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Wood with strips of bark removed and tall forest shots; canoe paddling down river, views of river and sky; measuring and cutting down trees, removing branches and chopping wood, piled wood; moving timer using a horse-drawn sled; removing bark from logs; views of fields and close ups of trees; roads lined with trees; time lapse of woods at winter time.
CC 187 (continued)	[Snowmobile] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of two men in a fan-powered snowmobile; deer in woods and several men chopping small trees.
	[Sturgeon] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
AE 103	Sturgeon Note: Measuring sturgeon, tagging, followed by man showing a ranger his fish (likely registration process).
AE 103 (continued)	Sturgeon spearing, 1957 Note: Man spearing a lake sturgeon and holding for display, tagging and measuring at a registration station. Portion of film is poorly exposed.
	[Trout] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color
AE 104	Brook trout Note: Ten seconds of footage of a trout swimming.
AE 104 (continued)	Trout fishing Note: Man in canoe fishing, standing in stream, back in canoe, and miscellaneous wildlife shots of the shoreline.
AE 104 (continued)	Trout Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Large group of people on a boat near Bayfield, WI and footage of the Apostle Islands shoreline. Includes scenes of people fishing, the Trollers' Home, South Twin Island cabins for rent; gulls and more shoreline.
AC 368	[Trout fishing] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Miscellaneous scenes of a man fly fishing for trout.
AC 360	[Water safety] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Outtakes on water safety. Examples include the right and wrong ways to get into a canoe, trading seats in a canoe, pulling anchor, fishing, and helping someone into a canoe.
AE 105	[Wildlife research and game management credits] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Credits and introduction to unknown WCD film. Director and photographer, Staber W. Reese and Dean E. Tvedt; story and editing, Jacques Stewart Thompson and Harold W. Clover. “This is a story about wildlife research and the role it has in game management. Research is an intangible. It's processes are more a state of mind than a diary of daily deeds. Yet all of us are familiar with the results of research, and our lives are richer because of it. Now-Let's follow “Red 14,” his brothers of the wild and the men who are working for a better tomorrow.”
AE 106	[Wisconsin Conservation Department, awards dinner, outtakes #1-2] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Footage from a WCD awards dinner at Park Motor Inn [Madison?]. Includes footage of Mrs. and Miss Wisconsin and [Warren Knowles?].
AE 107	[Wisconsin Conservation Committee, meeting] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, black and white Note: Scenes from a WCC meeting. Includes shots of registration tables, meeting with speakers and men with signs indicating county.
AC 362	[Wisconsin forestry] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Miscellaneous footage of pine tree sapling at a [farm?], adult trees with tags, views of a dam along a river, three men sitting at the base of a large pine, bird eating bread on a cut log, man measuring a large pine, sawing branches off a felled tree.
AC 365	[Wisconsin game] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Home movie footage of men fishing, including shots of men rowing, a totem pole, and a game farm.
AE 108	[Wisconsin game, forest animals] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of animals found in Wisconsin including deer, baby skunks, bears, and pheasants with chicks.
AE 109	[Woodland animal babies] Physical Description: 16 mm, silent, color Note: Footage of animal babies found in the Midwest including [coyote pups?], raccoon kits, skunk babies, fox (red and black) and black bear cubs swimming, playing and climbing.
2013/003 Box 1 Folder 1-12	Photographs, slides and transparencies of graphs and exhibits related to a 1955 Wisconsin survey on hunting and fishing in the state; as well as outdoor recreational activities and Wisconsin wildlife