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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Mercer Ranger Station from a watchtower. |
| Date: | 10 1936 |
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| Description: | Fire lookout station at Mercer ranger station. |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across road toward the court house. Caption reads: "Court House, Hurley, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Main street of the town, shown during reconstruction for use as a motion picture set. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the hotel across from the Mercer Supply Company. There is a small dog in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man fishing. The man, wearing waders and up to his knees in water, is struggling to reel in a giant bass. The words "Nip & Tuck with a Ba... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man pulling a giant fish into his rowboat. As the text box in the lower left corner--which reads "Swallowed The Pole and All"--suggests,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rest Lake Dam of Manitowish River, Manitowish. Photograph taken from Vance Lake Highway (old Highway 51, now Highway W). |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Finland Cabins featuring a steam bath. There is a large woodpile at one side of the building. |
| Date: | 10 03 1961 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative jacket reads, "The 20th Century Fox motion picture studio crew at work filming 'Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man,' based on Ernes... |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men constructinbg a movie set in a small, downtown area. |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown area reconstructed for a movie location set. Several contemporary automobiles are seen in the background. Men are working on on two diff... |
| Date: | 10 03 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street, altered by 20th Century Fox motion picture studio for scenes in the movie "Young Man." For filming, local people dressed the par... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from water of vacation cabins and boats along lake shoreline of Turtle Flowage. The roof of the building on the right says: "Al's Place / Lunches — Ca... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Turtle flowage near the Turtle Dam on the Flambeau River. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of people gathered on and near the Turtle Dam of the Flambeau River. View from the Turtle Flowage side of the dam. |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. One woman is thumbing her nose at the camera. The arrest w... |
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