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Girl Climbing Rocks at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1938
Description: A girl climbing over the rocks at Devil's Lake State Park against a scenic view of the lake and surrounding areas.
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Two Youth in Elephant Cave

Date: 1940
Description: A young boy and girl posed inside of the Elephant Cave in the east bluffs at Devil's Lake State Park.
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Nice Catch

Date: 1937
Description: Jean A. Pope is smiling broadly while holding a stringer of five bass. He is also holding his rod and reel, and is standing on a small wooden pier. A descr...
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Woman with Muskie

Date: 1935
Description: A well-dressed, unidentified woman is standing next to a muskie hanging from a line. She is next to the porch of a large building, and there is an automobi...
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Tiger Muskie

Date: 1935
Description: An unidentified man standing on a lawn is holding a 48 pound muskie by a wood handled hook. There is a lake in the background, and on the right, the rustic...
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Muskie

Date: 07 01 1938
Description: Seven-year-old Russell Jefferson, right, is standing holding his rod and reel next to his father, Dan Jefferson. Dan is holding the 38 pound, 6 ounce muski...
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Trout

Date: 1935
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...
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Pan Fish

Date: 07 1939
Description: A young woman is standing and posing with a stringer of panfish in front of a car with a small travel trailer behind it. She is wearing a wide leg bib over...
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"Sticky" at Little Norway

Date: 1935
Description: A man identified only as "Sticky" is posing standing on the lawn in front of a log cabin at Little Norway. He is wearing traditional Norwegian dress with e...
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George W. Brown

Date: 1935
Description: Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man. He is wearing a plaid jacket over a dark-colored shirt. There appears to be construction in progress be...
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Medicine Man

Date: 1935
Description: A waist-up informal portrait of Match-o-ka-mah, described on the reverse of the photograph as "Medicine Man and Keeper of the Sacred Drum of the Wisconsin ...
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Cecelia Blackdeer

Date: 1939
Description: Waist-up outdoor portrait of Cecelia Blackdeer (1917-1990), the daughter of Charles and Carolind Decorah Blackdeer standing in front of a flowering tree. S...
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Women at the Beach

Date: 1935
Description: Two women in bathing suits and wearing brimmed hats are posing sitting on a stone wall. The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Two fair bather...
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Emil Kramer

Date: 09 1940
Description: Conservation Warden Emil Kramer is standing on a float in the American Legion National Convention parade in Boston, Massachusetts. He is wearing waders and...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...
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Good Catch

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards a boy sitting in the stern of a boat holding a stringer of five good sized fish, their tails in the water. A lure is hanging from...
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A Good Day's Catch

Date: 1940
Description: Two smiling men are sitting on the ground and posing with seven good-sized fish. The man on the right is holding a line with a lure on it above the open mo...
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Sturgeon

Date: 1940
Description: Two men dressed in suits and hats are posing while supporting a wooden frame from which four sturgeon are hanging, tied up by their tails. A stone building...
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Camping and Fishing

Date: 1940
Description: An unidentified man is posing outdoors wearing a straw hat, long-sleeved shirt and slacks, with a bark basket worn as a backpack. He is carrying a tackle b...

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