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| Description: | A fishermen smoking a pipe poses with fish strung from a wooden pole beneath an evergreen tree. |
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| Description: | Fishermen and women pose with a swordfish tied to a mast aboard a boat. |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Three commercial fishermen in a boat lifting a trap net. In the bottom right foreground are the hands of another man holding the opposite side of the net f... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
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| Description: | View of the giant walk-through musky and other oversized fish at the National Fishing Hall of Fame. A small group of people is visible in the mouth of the ... |
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| Description: | Several men are using a large net to fish near the Depere [sic] Falls. |
| Date: | 12 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin symbols, the University of Wisconsin's "Bucky Badger" and the state's sports fishing logo, "Husky Musky," will be aboard the special train ca... |
| Date: | 04 27 1953 |
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| Description: | Fishing store window display "Husky Musky" at the Wisconsin Felton Sporting Goods Store. |
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| Description: | View across water toward the Cedar Falls Dam, built in 1910. Men are standing in the river and fishing at the base of the dam. |
| Date: | 06 16 1953 |
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| Description: | A photographic tribute to Madison dads on Fathers Day includes a portrait of Madison City Engineer John G. Thompson and his three sons, Jim Thompson, Dougl... |
| Date: | 07 12 1953 |
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| Description: | George Karls of Waunakee is shown fishing in Cross Plains creek. |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Alvina Niebuhr is shown holding the "winning" contribution can in the campaign to finance the purchase of a northern pike spawning and rearing area in... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of freshly caught German Brown Trout, lying near a net and fishing pole. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people in a park along the shoreline waiting for the White Bass run. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a covered bridge spanning the Delaware River. Signs on the bridge read, "$25.00 Fine for Riding or Driving Faster than a Walk on this Brid... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view across water towards the Pheasant Inn on Lake Mason. Buildings are along the shoreline behind large trees. Two people are in a r... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men, one standing one crouching, in a wooden rowboat on Forest Lake. The man standing is reeling in a fish that is making a big splash in the water. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men fishing out of wooden rowboats on the Turtle flowage near the Turtle Dam on the Flambeau River. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people on boat dock on Namakagon Lake. Some of them are holding stringers of recently caught fish, and wooden rowboats are tied to the doc... |
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