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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

Sigurd Olson

Date: 1942
Description: Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe.
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William O. Douglas

Date: 1958
Description: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas during a canoe trip with conservationist Sigurd F. Olson. He is sitting with his hat in hand beside a canoe pulled...
Photograph

Sig Olson and Sons

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Description: Sigurd Olson with his sons, Robert and Sig Jr., after a duck hunt.
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Portaging at Curtain Falls

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Description: View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
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Olson at Quetico Park Portage

Date: 08 15 1948
Description: Sigurd Olson during the American Forest Trail ride at Brent Lake in Quetico Provincial Park.
Photograph

Workers' Unity House Boathouse

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Description: View toward shoreline with a covered pier and a pavilion on the end on the left. To the right of the pier are men and women in rowboats. A sign on a tree i...
Photograph

Looking Out of Boat Cave

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Description: Stereograph of two men in a canoe looking out from Boat Cave. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery."
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Lone Rock

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Description: A few from a shoreline of the formation Lone Rock on the Wisconsin River. A canoe is in the water, and another formation is in the background. Text at righ...
Photograph

Canoeing at Camp Lenoloc

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Description: Girls canoe near a dock at Camp Lenoloc as additional girls watch from the shoreline. Trees and other foliage line the water and mountains are in the backg...
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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.
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A Boathouse Crowd

Date: 1920
Description: View across water toward a crowd of people standing on both the upper and lower level floors of a boathouse overlooking the lake. On the water beside the s...
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...
Photograph

Scene on Red Cedar River

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Description: A group of youth sits on a shoreline along the Red Cedar River while others swim and boat. A stone structure stands in the center of the river and foreste...
Photograph

Looking Out of Boat Cave - Anaglyph

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Description: Stereograph of two men in a canoe looking out from Boat Cave.
Photograph

Canoe on Lake Mendota

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Description: View from shoreline of four individuals in a canoe on Lake Mendota, framed with branches from a tree on the left side of the image.
Photograph

Lone Rock

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Description: View of Lone Rock on the Wisconsin River. A canoe is floating along the shoreline in the foreground.
Book or Pamphlet

Missionary in Canoe

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of a missionary priest wearing a robe standing in the fore of a canoe as it comes ashore paddled by a person in the aft. An Indian on ...
Photograph

YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 08 03 1953
Description: A scene at YMCA's day camp at Camp Wakanda, located on a shore of Lake Mendota. Counselor Rick Dettloff, standing on a pier, steadies a canoe for Jerry Han...

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