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Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
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Shooting Wild Pigeons

Date: 09 21 1867
Description: Illustration of four men shooting at a thick flock of wild pigeons. Hunting dogs are gathered around them in the field, which has a number of dead birds.
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Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
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Big-Foot's Village and Lake

Date: 1856
Description: Lithographic view of a man in a canoe on Big-Foot's Lake (modern day Lake Geneva) with a small settlement on a bluff overlooking the lake. A group of birds...
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Opening Day Fishing Season - Memories of Fishing Seasons

Date: 1967
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of John Anderson and Earle Robert (Rob) Metcalf hunting in the dark for nightcrawlers for fishing. John is standing and ill...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1973
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea...
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Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
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Atwood, Hernia & Fosmark Railroad

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Description: Line drawing of an engineer driving a whimsical locomotive along railroad tracks through a country scene, in which a bull is seen sitting on the grass and ...

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