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Drawing

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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
Drawing

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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish History

Date: 05 07 1988
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times on May 7, 1988 with Sid's caption: "Fish history begins with hooks made of wood, ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1986
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capital Times on May 3, 1986 with Sid's caption: "Before fish, all men are created equal. Fish,...
Photograph

Military Homing Pigeons

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man's arm and hand holding a military homing pigeon. A sign on the cage in the background reads: "Military Homing Pigeons. These ar...
Photograph

Carrier Pigeons

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A man is standing near a cage for carrier pigeons camouflaged in the hay. Captioned: "A camouflaged, but homelike, haven for carrier pigeons. They carry me...
Photograph

Man and Pigeon

Date: 1909
Description: An unidentified man is kneeling down and holding his hand out to a bird (probably a pigeon or a dove) in the town of Watersmeet.
Photograph

Hunting Woodcock

Date: 1967
Description: A man is kneeling down in tall grass, holding his rifle in his right hand and two woodcocks in his left hand. His dog (a setter) is lying on the ground nex...
Photograph

Hunting Geese

Date: 1967
Description: A hunter is pointing his rifle into the sky and aiming for a goose flying overhead.
Photograph

Successful Hunter

Date: 1976
Description: A hunter is holding his rifle over his left shoulder and is holding a goose in his right hand.
Photograph

Turkey Hunting

Date: 04 1966
Description: A man in hunting gear is kneeling on the ground holding his rifle in his right hand, and holding up a dead turkey in his left.
Photograph

Hunter and Dog with Woodcocks

Date: 1967
Description: View of a man kneeling behind a log, with his arm around his hunting dog. Three dead woodcocks are lying on the log in front of the man.
Photograph

Caught Woodcocks

Date: 1967
Description: Close-up of a man's hands holding dead woodcocks alongside his right leg. A dog walking on the right is sniffing at the bodies of the dead birds.
Poster

South America. Come Along

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of two sailors enjoying themselves in a colorful (and apparently South American) village. One sailor is riding a llama, an...
Photograph

Netting Pheasants

Date: 04 1946
Description: A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ...
Photograph

Farmhouse Used for Military Housing

Date: 1918
Description: U.S. soldiers are standing in front of a stone farmhouse used for military housing in France. A pond with geese is in the foreground, and a horse is standi...
Manuscript

The Short Cut Route

Date: 1920
Description: Cover of an advertisement and timetable for the Peninsula & Northern Navigation Co. of Milwaukee. The S.S. United States and the S.S. Arizona...
Poster

Un dernier effort et on l'aura

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicting American soldiers climbing up a rock. The rock is topped by an Imperial eagle and the symbol of the iron cross. The bird's claws and the c...
Photograph

Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Parakeet Mike posing on one blade of a pair of scissors belonging to barber Roy Brumley, who works at the Belmont Hotel barber shop. Brumley is holding the...

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