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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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Namekagon Queen

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Description: Men, women, and children are on a riverboat named "Namekagon Queen," which is on the Namekagon River next to a wooden dock.
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Merrimac Ferry

Date: 06 1971
Description: The Merrimac Ferry hauling cars across the Wisconsin River. A bridge across the river is in the background behind the ferry.
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Car Ferry

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Description: A car ferry moving out across the Wisconsin River. Three boys are swimming in the river in the foreground.
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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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Swimming on Wolf River

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Description: A group of children and adults swimming and playing in the water of the Wolf River next to their blue houseboat docked at the shoreline.
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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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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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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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