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Tall-tale Postcard: The Daddy of Them All

Date: 08 05 1922
Description: Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg...
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Men with Fish

Date: 1925
Description: Two unidentified men pose with ten fish attached to a board in front of a canvas backdrop.
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Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
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Fishing

Date: 1920
Description: Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ...
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Deep Lake

Date: 1928
Description: View down slope towards Deep Lake. There is a girl standing in a rowboat at the shoreline. She is holding up her catch of the day. In the background a man ...
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Hotel St. Catherine Dinner Menu

Date: 07 21 1925
Description: Dinner menu from the Hotel St. Catherine, with a color postcard at the top, meant to be detached and mailed, with a view of the hotel against a backdrop of...
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

Man Driving Tractor-Drawn Binder

Date: 09 09 1923
Description: Left side view of a man using a tractor-drawn binder in a field. In the background down a slop a man and two children are watching. Harvested grain is in t...
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Brule Fish Hatchery

Date: 11 16 1929
Description: Slightly elevated view towards an unidentified man standing in the doorway of a simple wood frame, single story building. A sign on the roof identifies the...
Postcard

Muskie

Date: 1920
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.
Photograph

Two Men and Large Fish

Date: 01 30 1929
Description: Two men are standing together outdoors. The man on the left is holding a large fish in front of him. The photograph may have been taken in Africa.
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Man with Fish

Date: 1924
Description: An unidentified man, possibly Herbert P. Brumder, stands holding a large fish.
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Fishing

Date: 1926
Description: Herbert E. Brumder, left, posing and holding a fishing net in one hand, and the rope to a fishing bucket in the other hand, while standing in front of a mo...
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Gar Fish

Date: 1929
Description: Herbert E. Brumder posing standing and holding a fishing pole and line. A longnose, or needlenose gar is lying on the ground in front of him. Herbert's you...
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Holt Family Dog

Date: 08 1923
Description: In the foreground, the Holt family dog, an English Cocker Spaniel, is looking up at freshly-caught fish on a stringer held by a man standing behind with a ...
Postcard

The Buckhorn

Date: 1925
Description: Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-...

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