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Stuffing Musky at Musky Jamboree

Date: 08 09 1972
Description: Two elderly women are stuffing and tying a musky with string before cooking it. The women are wearing buttons with an image of a musky that reads: "I am a ...
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Smoked Fish

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Description: A woman is standing outdoor in front of a smokehouse and holding up a wooden rod with smoked fish hanging from it. More fish are hanging from rods behind h...
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Dead Fish Along the Shoreline

Date: 1967
Description: View along shoreline with a large amount of dead alewives floating in the water near large rocks. A man and children are standing on a stone fishing dock o...
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Dyeing Fingerlings for Later I.D.

Date: 1971
Description: A man is bending over and standing on a flat metal rail over a vat of water. The man is wearing a dust mask over his face, and is holding two screens dyed ...
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Test Seining on Kentuck Lake

Date: 1958
Description: View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up ...
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Governor Knowles with a Rainbow Trout

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Description: Governor Warren Perley Knowles, 37th Governor of Wisconsin, holding up a rainbow trout at Teal Lake. He is holding his fishing pole in his right hand, and ...
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Children on a Dock

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Description: View from shore of two young children standing on a small wooden dock. The boy is holding up a cane fishing pole, and the girl is holding up a stringer of ...
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Teaching Fishing

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Description: A man is showing a young boy how to unhook a bass from a fishing line while standing on a pier. The boy is holding the fishing pole. The man is wearing a f...
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Musky Fishing

Date: 1969
Description: Two men in a canoe on a lake. One man is pulling a muskellunge (musky) out of the water with his fishing pole. The other man is standing and holding a net ...
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Celebrating a Successful Catch

Date: 1969
Description: Two men in a canoe on a lake, with one of the men holding a muskellunge (musky) hooked on a fishing line, and a fishing net. The other man is holding the f...
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White Bass Fishing

Date: 1973
Description: Two men are kneeling on a dock along the Wolf River, each holding two stringers of white bass they have caught.
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Landing a Muskellunge

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Description: Two men fishing are kneeling on boat cushions in a small boat on Little Bass Lake. One of the men is reeling in a muskellunge (musky) while the other man i...
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Musky Fishing

Date: 1963
Description: A man is standing in a boat on Pine Lake, holding up a muskellunge he has caught. Another man is sitting in the boat holding a camera to take a photograph ...
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Unloading Fish

Date: 1973
Description: A man is walking down a dock holding a large string of white bass. Other men are standing or kneeling on the dock behind him.
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Sturgeon

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Description: A woman is posing outdoors while holding up the tail of a large sturgeon hanging from a hook. Behind her people are standing under a tent.
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Catching Trout

Date: 1967
Description: Close-up of a man leaning over the side of a boat and using a small net to scoop up a trout he has caught on the line of his fly rod.
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Rainbow Trout

Date: 05 1972
Description: Close-up view of a rainbow trout making a splash while fighting a fishing line on the Pine River.
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Man Holding Stringer of Fish

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Description: Slightly elevated view of two men sitting in a rowboat. One of the men is holding up a stringer of fish.
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Preparing Musky

Date: 08 09 1972
Description: Elevated view of four women setting up tables at the Musky Jamboree, preparing to cook and serve over one thousand pounds of musky. Men and boys are watchi...
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Pelicans and Flamingos

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Description: A pelican is eating a fish from a pond in the aviary at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Flamingos are standing around the pond behind the pelican.

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