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White Water Rapids

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Description: A young woman is sitting in a canoe at the top of white water rapids on the Crystal River. A young man is holding onto her canoe. Behind them a man and wom...
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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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Crystal River

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Description: A young man and woman canoeing down the Crystal River.
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Brule River

Date: 1967
Description: A family of three are canoeing down the Brule River. Bushes and tall grass are along the shoreline, and trees are in the background.
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Paddle Steamer

Date: 1968
Description: Tourists boarding a paddle steamer along the Mississippi River.
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Boating

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Description: A man is sitting in a motorboat behind the steering wheel. A girl wearing a life jacket is behind him kneeling on the dock. Walking on the dock on the left...
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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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Chopping Wood

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Description: View across lawn towards a man swinging an ax to split a piece of wood.
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Camping on Star Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View down slope towards a green tent pitched on a hill overlooking Star Lake. A man is cooking on a grill near the tent.
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Camping along Long Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View towards a child, and a woman holding a baby at the shoreline of a lake. In the right foreground is a camper, and on the left is the front hood of a ca...
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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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Fishing on the Wisconsin River

Date: 1967
Description: A man is sitting in a boat holding a fishing pole on the Wisconsin River near Tower Hill State Park. A black dog is sitting towards the front of the boat.
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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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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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Trout Fishing

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Description: View across river towards a man wearing waders standing knee-deep in the Bois Brule River near the shoreline. He is holding a fishing pole in his right han...
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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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