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| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Pictorial map of Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Illustrated by Joe Scheurle, it depicts white people, American ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area. |
| Date: | 05 01 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 07 1988 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | This map shows in red the NorthWestern Railway Line routes running from Chicago, Illinois to northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The map includes cities and t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This map shows in red the NorthWestern Railway Line routes running from Chicago, Illinois to northern Wisconsin. The map includes cities and towns, lakes, ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water towards one of The Gang reclining in a canoe on the water. His hat is pulled over his eyes and a fishing pole is propped up in the front ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two men in a canoe on a lake. One man is pulling a muskellunge (musky) out of the water with his fishing pole. The other man is standing and holding a net ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | View across grass towards a row of trees on the shoreline of Star Lake. Three people are fishing from a canoe out on the lake. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing waders and a cap is posing on a rocky shore holding up a large muskie. There is a wooden canoe in the shallow water behind him. |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | View across water on a sunny day, where many anglers are fishing below the Indian Ford dam and bridge on the Rock river. Some of the men are fishing from t... |
| Date: | 09 26 1939 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Conservation Department float in the 1939 Chicago American Legion Parade. The float features two women who are standing in a canoe pretending t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, wearing a hat with fishing flies on the hatband, is posing in a canoe holding a walleyed pike. Several hooks are protruding from the f... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two clergymen and one boy are sitting in a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. The clergyman on the left is holding a long cane pole. The clergyman ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Wearing a dress, Donald Holt is fishing, using a wooden pole, in Archibald Lake. Alfred Holt is paddling a canoe. Eleanor Holt is standing next to Donald o... |
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