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Family Canoeing on the Kickapoo River

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Description: A family canoeing along the Kickapoo River. The mother and father are paddling the canoe carrying three young children sitting in the middle.
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Lake Steamer

Date: 1967
Description: View from behind of two men sitting on a park bench who are looking at the lake steamer docked in the harbor. In the distance, a red lighthouse is at the e...
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Fishing on Chain of Lakes

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Description: View from shoreline of three men sitting on a small motorboat with their fishing rods on Waupaca Chain O'Lakes. Other boats are on the lake in the distance...
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Cooking on a Campfire

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Description: Three men are sitting around a campfire cooking meat and hash on iron skillets. There are trees and a lake in the background.
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Man Curling

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Description: A man is leaning over the ice preparing to deliver the stone in a curling game. He holds a broom in his left hand and the stone in his right.
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Ice Fishing

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Description: A man is standing on the ice of a lake, using an ice chisel to make a hole in the ice. Behind him a man is sitting on an Evinrude snowmobile prepping the t...
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Ice Fishing on Lake Owen

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Description: A man is sitting on a stool in the open doorway of a small tent on the ice on Lake Owen. He is holding a wooden drop line over a hole in the ice. Behind th...
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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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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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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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River Fishing

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Description: View across water towards an elderly man standing calf-deep in the Bois Brule River holding fly rod.
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Man Examining Fishing Tackle Box

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Description: Close-up of a man examining the contents of his fly-fishing tackle box while standing in Robinson Creek.
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Trout Fishing

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Description: View across stream towards a man bending over to net a fish he has caught in the Bois Brule River. He is holding a fishing pole in his right hand, and the ...
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Hiking along Sparta Trail

Date: 1967
Description: A group of men and women walking along a gravel path.
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Children Playing Hockey

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Description: A group of children playing hockey on an outdoor ice rink.
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Horseback Riding

Date: 1967
Description: A group of four horseback riders in tall grass on the top of a hill in Kettle Moraine State Forest. The man on the left is pointing off into the distance.
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Observing the Scenery from Horseback

Date: 1967
Description: A group of four horseback riders, one man, and three women, are stopped at the top of a hill looking at the view at Kettle Moraine State Forest. The man on...
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Horseback Riding at Kettle Moraine State Forest

Date: 1967
Description: A man in the foreground on the right is sitting on horseback at the top of a hill. In the background on the left are three women on horseback.

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