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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...
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
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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...
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Grand Hotel Queen's Birthday Menu Exterior

Date: 05 24 1898
Description: Front and back covers, printed in color, of the bill of fare served at the Grand Hotel on the birthday of Queen Victoria, with a tinted three-quarter view ...
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The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 574-588

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Description: If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward?
at what kind of life
along what kind of dotted lines?

At the top of the stairs, t...
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.
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Masonic Banquet Menu

Date: 12 27 1899
Description: Front cover and menu pages for a Masonic banquet, with the word "Menu" in gold-colored raised printing and two embossed fishes swimming around a branch 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

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.
Photograph

Portrait of John Wiggin and Muskie

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed standing. He is holding up in his right hand a fishing pole, tree branch, and...
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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...
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Madison Sourdough Company Fall Menu

Date: 2013
Description: Double-sided menu for the bakery and cafe, Madison Sourdough Company, (MSCo.) with still-life illustrations in color of fruits, fall leaves, nuts, squash, ...

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