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| Date: | 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men and two boys standing on ice in front of a windsled. All four are holding lake trout. |
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen, Frank Gratiot (president of the Yahara Fisherman's Club) and his brother Charles, display a 4.5 foot long, 50-pound Sturgeon they caught nea... |
| Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | A dead spoonbill catfish ("Polydon Spathula") found by former Dane County Coroner Wayne Fisher in a pothole along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. T... |
| Date: | 06 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Hi-bred Muskie caught by Russ Peterson in Lake Wingra. The accompanying sign notes that it was 41 inches long with a girth of 19 inches and weighing 16 pou... |
| Date: | 04 28 1948 |
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| Description: | First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Arthur O. (Cecelia) Johnson holding up a 38-1/2 inch northern pike, which she caught in Lake Mendota near Spring Harbor. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room. |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred... |
| Date: | 07 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Dane County Park Commission meeting to hear complaints regarding dead fish in the Yahara River. Stoughton Mayor Truman Felland is standing at the right, te... |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Carl A. "Cully" Kessenich (left), and Carl J. "Cully" Bach display seven walleyes caught in Lake Mendota. A third party to the fishing outing was Carl "Cul... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A muskellunge caught by Louie Spray in 1939 on display at the Angler's Bar. The muskellunge weighed fifty-nine and a half pounds and was caught in Grindsto... |
| Date: | 09 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Sports fisherman Leroy M. Kreisler, Monona, holding the thirty-eight pound sturgeon he caught in the Wisconsin River near Okee. The fish measured thirty-fi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines. |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo... |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn, watercolor and ink, map of Lake Mendota. Locations and many small figures appear around the shore with explanations referring to Indian legends... |
| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Olive Brooks, Division Engineer Public Relations, collecting dead fish after throwing dynamite into the water. She is holding a fish and has her pants roll... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map shows scenes of land use and farming superimposed on a map of the United States. Agricultural scenes of farming, livestock, and cr... |
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