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| Date: | 04 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men smelt wrestling at the Smelt Carnival in Marinette. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
| 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: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Advertising photograph of a fisherman posing with fish in hand on a beach in front of an International Scout pickup. |
| Date: | 11 11 1933 |
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| Description: | Four men posing with their dog and hunting trophies — moose, deer, bear, and fish hanging in the farmyard. |
| Date: | 05 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Roy "Chubby" Goodland with a string of trout, caught near Ridgeway. He is wearing waders, has a creel hanging over his shoulder, and is standing in front o... |
| Date: | 09 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men in a backyard are holding up a large pickerel fish that they presumably caught. |
| Date: | 06 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Dr. Karl Smith is standing near his house at 1 N. Prospect Avenue. He is holding one end of a pole that is resting on a fence and displaying four muskellun... |
| 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: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota skin-divers, Dick Charmley and Gary Davies, shown with fish that they have harpooned. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features an illustration of a swordfish being reeled in by men on a... |
| 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Card advertising the Park Hotel on the Capitol Square. Includes a drawing of the hotel, and a fish on a fishhook at the end of a fishing line. Text reads: ... |
| Date: | 02 1910 |
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| Description: | Six men wearing black jackets and hats stand proudly in front of a giant catfish. The catfish rests on the bed of a horse-drawn sled. The text in the upper... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand staring at a giant pickerel fish laying on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district, including a lumb... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of working class men stand staring at a giant pike fish resting on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district... |
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