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| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive... |
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| Description: | Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ... |
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| Description: | Four men and seven women are posing sitting and standing around a picnic on the edge of a river, with a man standing on a bridge in the background. The fir... |
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| Description: | Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Young couple in a park or rural scene near a river. The man, “Mr. Fish” has lifted the young lady, Ida Langenberger, up onto his left shoulder. He is holdi... |
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| Description: | Unidentified man with a moustache wearing a hat and smoking a cigar while sitting and holding a dog near a river. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on a flat boat on Wolf River. They hold stringers of fish suspended from a wooden pole between them. Behind them is what may be a gas pump on... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three people on a raft, all wearing blue shirts. Two of the people are standing and holding shields and spears, while the third person is sitting in the mi... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from across a stream towards a cigar-smoking fisherman (probably Sid Boyum) on the opposite side of the bank. He ... |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Ernest Copeland standing on a rock while fishing near Gordon Dam. He is wearing pajamas and a hat. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Bill Marr standing on the shore of the river next to canoes. He is holding a tobacco pipe. |
| Date: | 08 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of Georgia Junior Rangers and their guides viewing the Copper Falls of the Bad River. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a man fly fishing while standing in the river. He is wearing waders and a hat, and a creel and a net are hanging at his sides. He... |
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