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Lifting Nets on Lake Superior

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Description: Four fishermen in a boat lift nets on Lake Superior. The far shoreline is in the background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

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Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Print

Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
Photograph

Man and Boy with Fish

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Description: A man and boy stand on a landing in front of two boats with water and a far shoreline in the background. They are holding up their catch of fish.
Photograph

Young Men Show Off Their Fish

Date: 06 1930
Description: Tom and Bill O'Dea pose with a large Northern Pike in front of their parent's garage door on Park Street. They are wearing one piece coveralls and boots. T...
Photograph

Gary McKenna Holding a Fish

Date: 08 22 1959
Description: Gary McKenna holds a fishing rod and small fish in one hand and a flashlight in the other. The boy won the flashlight as a prize for being the first to cat...
Postcard

William Schmitt Fishing

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard along shoreline of a group of people fishing at Rudolph Mill. Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin, William Schmitt, is standing in the fo...
Photograph

A Fisherman with his Catch

Date: 1950
Description: A fisherman poses on rocks with his fishing pole and a stringer of fish.
Photograph

Fisherman and his Catch

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Description: A man wearing suspenders and a hat stands holding his catch of a large fish. He holds his fishing pole in his left hand, and a dog is lying at his feet.
Photograph

Fishin's Good at Jordan Lake

Date: 1926
Description: Men and boys fishing at Jordan Lake. One man is standing next to a boat pulled up at the shore and is holding up his catch of the day. There are cattails a...
Photograph

Men Preparing a Feast

Date: 08 28 1930
Description: Gathering of men at a “Shport [sic] Outing”. The men are standing around a barbecue pit, preparing a feast of fish and corn.
Print

Bookbinders Sea Food House Menu

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ...
Photograph

The Day's Catch

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background....
Photograph

Record Breaking Catch

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Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...
Drawing

Proposed Sports and Recreation Area, Wisconsin Pavilion

Date: 05 01 1964
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...
Photograph

Camping Scene

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Description: Exterior view of four women and one man displaying a stringer of fish hanging on a bicycle.
Photograph

Ice Fishing on Salmo Pond

Date: 01 1954
Description: Fisherman Walter Meske of Watertown holds up a fish he caught while ice fishing on Salmo Pond near Black Earth.
Photograph

Spearing Carp with the Ulrichs

Date: 07 20 1902
Description: August, Florentina, Mary, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger with members of the Ulirich family standing near a fence, returning from spear fishing for carp. August...
Photograph

Jennie and Edgar Krueger Holding Two Carp

Date: 1902
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger holding a pole between them on their shoulders, with two carp strung up on it. They are standing on a bank next to a river, with a...
Photograph

Korn Brothers

Date: 1910
Description: Three men (Korn brothers), all wearing hats, and two of them in suits, hold a bamboo pole holding stringers of fish between them. They are standing on a do...

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