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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men in a boat designed to shock fish with an electrical current. One man is driving the boat, while two other men are stand... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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. |
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| Description: | Two men are helping to hold down a sturgeon on the side of a boat as a third man tags the dorsal fin. |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling while observing the line of hatching jars used to incubate fish eggs. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing bib overalls is posing on a pier holding a large trout. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "An 8½ lb. trout taken fro... |
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| Description: | Two men are collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other is sitting in a chair with a conta... |
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| Description: | Close-up view of two men collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other man is sitting in a c... |
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| Description: | A man is holding up a carp with his hands (classified by the DNR as a rough fish). |
| Date: | 06 1975 |
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| Description: | A man wearing waders, a fishing vest and a creel is holding a trout while dislodging the hook from its mouth. |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the edge of Fox River and holding his fishing pole in his left hand and a walleye in his right. Behind him other people are sitting in... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A young woman is standing and posing with a stringer of panfish in front of a car with a small travel trailer behind it. She is wearing a wide leg bib over... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two young women, wearing nearly identical bib overall-style playsuits, are standing posing holding stringers of pan fish. There are three ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Informational sheet warning of the dangers of consuming fish contaminated with DDT. |
| Date: | 01 30 1929 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 19 1937 |
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| Description: | View towards a group of people looking at a float, built on the bed of a truck, representing the Wisconsin Conservation Department. The float is stopped on... |
| Date: | 09 25 1937 |
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| Description: | After a long day of fishing, the governors of three states are posing with ten muskies hanging from a birch log wired to two trees. Known as the "Battle of... |
| Date: | 05 1942 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boy sitting in the stern of a boat holding a stringer of five good sized fish, their tails in the water. A lure is hanging from... |
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| Description: | Tall-tale postcard showing three men fishing off a pier, with two of the men holding fishing poles and two gigantic fish rising out of the water. A buildin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, wearing a hat with fishing flies on the hatband, is posing in a canoe holding a walleyed pike. Several hooks are protruding from the f... |
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