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Lake Samoset

Date: 1935
Description: Two people canoeing near the shoreline of Lake Samoset.
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Canoeing on Namekagon River

Date: 1935
Description: Two men in a canoe on the Namekagon River in northwestern Wisconsin.
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Scene at Devil's Lake

Date: 1935
Description: The bluffs and lake appear hazy beyond an unpaved road and simple wooden bridge at Devil's Lake State Park. A man or boy at the shoreline can be seen throu...
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Canoe Instruction

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards Girl Scouts in five canoes setting out from shore on Rice Lake at Camp Hickory Hill. There is a temporary shade structure and woo...
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Canoe Sailing on Chippewa Lake

Date: 1935
Description: A young man is sitting and holding the mainsheet in a canoe fitted with a single mast and sail. There is a small wake behind the boat. The far shoreline is...
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Red Arrow Camp

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t...
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Poling a Canoe

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the negative envelope reads: "David Sample, guide at Brule, Wisconsin, taking a tourist down the fast moving waters of the Brule River."...
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Fishing Wharf

Date: 1935
Description: Canoes and small sailboats are pulled up on the shore or tied up to the piers extending from the wharf at Ellison Bay. There is a small warehouse on the wh...
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Nice Catch

Date: 1935
Description: An unidentified man, wearing a hat with fishing flies on the hatband, is posing in a canoe holding a walleyed pike. Several hooks are protruding from the f...
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Running Little Falls

Date: 1935
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards three young men in a canoe running the Little Falls rapids on the South Fork of the Flambeau River.

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