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Photograph

Calvin Coolidge Fishing

Date: 1928
Description: President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge...
Photograph

Trout Fishing on Brule River

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Description: View from shoreline towards eight men trout fishing on the Brule River.
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Photograph

Indians Fishing From Boats

Date: 07 16 1898
Description: A group of Ojibwa men fishing from boats.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Fish Keep You Busy Here

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Description: A large, ominous fish jumps over a red canoe, attempting to eat the man in the canoe. The man, wearing a brown suit, dives into the water. The card's capti...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Fishing is Excellent Here

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Description: Two men, wearing straw hats and overalls, stand in a canoe while attempting to reel in a giant fish. The sun is setting on the horizon in the background. T...
Photograph

Fishing with the Boys

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Description: Elizabeth Olson, her sons, and another boy, in canoes owned by the Border Lakes Wilderness Outfitting Company. This photograph was probably taken for publi...
Photograph

Fishing Near Canoes

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Description: A man sits in a floating canoe filled with fishing equipment while another canoe rests on a nearby shore.
Map or Atlas

Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Date: 1930
Description: Pictorial map of Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Illustrated by Joe Scheurle, it depicts white people, American ...
Map or Atlas

Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Date: 1930
Description: The back of the pictorial map titled Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. 14 panels of text and photo...
Postcard

View of Alma, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard view over the Mississippi River showing of the town of Alma. Bluffs are behind the town. In the foreground, two men wearing hats are ...
Photograph

South Shore

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Description: View along shoreline of a man and two boys fishing on a wooden dock. A rowboat is pulled up on the shore. Two cars are parked near trees. In the far backgr...
Photograph

Four People with Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: Group portrait of four people standing on a pier holding two lines of fish that they caught at Nature Lovers Paradise resort on Jackson Lake. The two men, ...
Photograph

Seven Men Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: View of seven men wearing pants, boots, belts and long-sleeved button-up shirts holding a box and three stringers of fish they caught. The wooden boats in ...
Photograph

Three Women with Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: Group portrait of three young women wearing boots standing outdoors and holding onto a heavy line of fish. On the left are some wooden boats, the one in th...
Postcard

Bear Lake — Haugen, Wis.

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Description: Two views of Bear Lake. The top is a daylight view with some fall color. The one below is at sunset, with two people in a canoe on the lake. Caption reads:...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 12-18

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Description: She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here
on the outer edge of worry
It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice
A ha...
Photograph

Men in the Backwoods

Date: 1930
Description: Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area.
Drawing

Proposed Sports and Recreation Area, Wisconsin Pavilion

Date: 05 01 1964
Description: Architect's rendering of a sports and recreation exhibit area at the Wisconsin pavilion for the 1964 New York World's Fair. A man at right is shown fishing...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...

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