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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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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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Rocky Island

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Description: Two women and a man are walking down the dock near a boat named "Chippewa" on Rocky Island.c South Twin Island is across the water 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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Sailboat on Chequamegon Bay

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Description: Three people are sitting in a small wooden sailboat with a red sail. Trees are covering the shoreline in the background.
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Boating on the Wisconsin River

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Description: Elevated view across water towards a group of people in a motorboat on the Wisconsin 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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On a Motor Boat

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Description: Elevated view of two young men and two young women sitting in a motorboat. The driver is wearing a shirt, and the two women and the other man are wearing b...
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Boating on a Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View towards two men riding in a red motorboat on a lake.
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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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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

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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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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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