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| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Oscar Lochner (right) watching a committee member wearing a fur coat and hat weighing his catch. |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ken Christenson pulling a perch out of a hole cut in the ice of Lake Mendota during sub-zero weather. |
| Date: | 06 11 1956 |
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| Description: | R. Glenn Weiss and his son, Stephen, 18, look over some of their fishing equipment. |
| Date: | 09 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The Lake Mendota fish population was reduced this week by this fine catch of crappies, white bass, and bluegills by Madison's expert fisher... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Shows potential fishing areas by species and season, as well as sand and rock bars, weed beds, public facilities, points of interest, and selected business... |
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| Description: | We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake But the community interests ought to come fir... |
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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. |
| Date: | 06 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Scene along “Willow Drive,” later known as "University Drive," on the shore of Lake Mendota, showing the neo-Gothic carved bridge. View from shoreline of t... |
| Date: | 02 20 1960 |
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| Description: | A Madison couple, Karen and Larry Slotta, solved the babysitting problem at the Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. They put their 7 1/2 mon... |
| Date: | 02 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Mike Merkle, left, packs away his catch after weighing in at the annual Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. With Mike are his sister, Marcia... |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Fishermen ranging in age from seven years to over seventy cast from the breakwater at Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Yerges fishing on the breakwater at Tenney Park. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the State Board of Control, with vignettes, printed in blue ink, of various recreational scenes: fishing, playing golf, game bird hunting, an... |
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| Description: | View across the Yahara River towards a tall smokestack on the opposite shoreline, with Lake Mendota in the background. Remnants of the foundation and suppo... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards Sid Boyum fishing while standing on a pile of rocks near a river. Near Sid on the opposite shoreline is a collapsed building on... |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of one forming the background that shows a man with a pipe in his mouth, fishing at the edge of an inlet of a lake and stream, and of ... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | Canadian geese floating near the shore on a lake. In the distance a fisherman is standing on a small boat reeling in his line. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a... |
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