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| Description: | View of the steamship "David Swain" docked in the water near Chillicothe. The sign painted on the side of the ship reads: "Lasalle & Peoria Packet David Sw... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the Richmond and Dresden ferry in the Kennebec River, about to land. A man and a horse with cart are on the ferry. Several canoes and a sailboat is... |
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| Description: | Border Lakes Outfitting Company, Sigurd Olson's summer business that provided guides and equipment for wilderness vacations. |
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| Description: | A duck hunter at the edge of a rocky shoreline, probably Sigurd Olson. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson duck hunting from a canoe. |
| Date: | 07 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, followed by Tony Lovink, at the beginning of their "grand portage." A large lake and islands are in the background. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson and friends canoeing on the Lower Churchill River. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson with his sons, Robert and Sig Jr., after a duck hunt. |
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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. |
| Date: | 08 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson during the American Forest Trail ride at Brent Lake in Quetico Provincial Park. |
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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... |
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| Description: | View across water toward women and men canoeing in two canoes. One canoe contains two women and a man; the other a woman and man. In the background on the ... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward a woman in a canoe holding a parasol as an accompanying man paddles through the water near a wooded shore at Playland. Other row... |
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| Description: | A group of people picnics near a hammock hanging between two trees along a beach. Several people canoe in the water. |
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