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O.R. Pieper Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the O.R. Pieper Company, with a left-hand side bar with color illustrations of "Bright-Spot" brand canned foods: various fruits and vegetable...
Photograph

Henery Ullsvik, Grocer, Sells Norwegian Saithe Fish

Date: 03 03 1965
Description: Madison grocer, Henry Ullsvik, wearing an apron, vest and neck tie. He is holding a small box of a frozen Norwegian fish called 'saithe' and a copy of a "W...
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Rennebohm Menu

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Description: Front cover and interior pages of menu from Rennebohm's. The front cover features a wood-grain background with a silhouette of a cup of coffee. Interior pa...
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Fish Banquet

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Description: Elevated view of a large group of men sitting down at a fish banquet. The men are sitting at long tables spanning two rooms. On the far right is a table wi...
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This Map of North America, According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated by your Lordship's Most Humble Servant Herman Moll, Geographer

Date: 1715
Description: One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map, it shows rivers and portages, cities, Indian villages, wind directions, routes...
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Smoked Fish

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Description: A woman is standing outdoor in front of a smokehouse and holding up a wooden rod with smoked fish hanging from it. More fish are hanging from rods behind h...
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Commercial Fishing Nets Drying

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Description: Commercial fishing nets dry on a net reel at Gordon Lodge.
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Fulton Street Fish Market

Date: 1930
Description: The bed of a truck, barrels and crates are hold fishing and other seafood tended by workers at a fish market. Also pictured are hanging scales and a canvas...
Poster

Eat More Corn, Oats and Rye Products

Date: 1917
Description: Poster urging food conservation depicting a variety of acceptable foods arranged on a table. The rest of the text reads: "Fish and poultry — fruits, vegeta...
Poster

Save the products of the Land

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of fish swimming underwater among seaweed. Advocates eating fish rather than other meat sources. The rest of the text reads: "E...
Photograph

Bayfield Wharf

Date: 07 1936
Description: Fishing tugs are moored alongside the wharf at Bayfield. The large Bayfield Fish Co. building is identified in large letters on the end of the building. Th...
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Wharf at Marinette

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of fishing tugs moored alongside the wharf at Marinette. Two automobiles are parked in the foreground, just in front of the Bridge Fish Co. b...
Photograph

Packing Smelt

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Commercial fishermen hauling in their net and immediately packing the small silvery smelt into boxes fo...
Photograph

Wharf at Algoma

Date: 07 1936
Description: Elevated view of seagulls flying over fishing tugs moored at the wharf in Algoma. Small warehouse buildings line the wharf. Fish net drying reels are visib...
Photograph

Wharf at Fish Creek

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier....
Photograph

Canning Carp

Date: 11 1936
Description: A man wearing a long leather apron, cap and gloves is operating a machine that secures lids to cans. Written on the reverse of the print is the description...
Photograph

Preparing Musky

Date: 08 09 1972
Description: Elevated view of four women setting up tables at the Musky Jamboree, preparing to cook and serve over one thousand pounds of musky. Men and boys are watchi...
Photograph

Making Chowder

Date: 08 1940
Description: Joe Norton, left, and his son Bud are tending a large pan of fish chowder cooking over the coals of a campfire on the shore of Green Lake. In the backgrou...
Photograph

Fish Boil

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Description: A crowd of men, women, and children are watching as two pit fires heat two large pots in the foreground. Someone (out of frame) is spraying water from the ...
Poster

Trout Ponds at Seven Pines

Date: 01 20 1916
Description: Outdoor view of several divided ponds.

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