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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | This map shows nature trails, public attractions, public hunting and fishing grounds, dams, waysides, lakes, highways, and roads. The upper right corner in... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two images: the one on the left is titled: "A Sample Catch" and is of three men holding the fish they caught, with a dog sitting a... |
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| Description: | View from shore towards a bridge crossing a river. Three boys are standing in the marshy foreground, and one of them has a fishing pole. A horse and buggy ... |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | "Party on the Ice" sign outdoors promoting the events that are included in the Lake Winnebago celebration. Events included Sturgeon-Spearing and crowds ass... |
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| Description: | View down slope towards several men posing at the shoreline while taking part in a lakeside gathering. Many of them are sitting on the grass or on boats dr... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the dam over the Trempealeau River at Independence. A steel bridge is above the dam. A child is standing anf fishing from the r... |
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| Description: | Two young women wearing waders are standing in a creek or small river. One of the women is holding a net just above the water, while the other women is exa... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Greetings from Island Lake, Wis." Handwritten at bottom: "A muskellunge — length 40 inches, weight 21 1/2 lbs." |
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| Description: | View from shore of two young children standing on a small wooden dock. The boy is holding up a cane fishing pole, and the girl is holding up a stringer of ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of three men sitting on a small motorboat with their fishing rods on Waupaca Chain O'Lakes. Other boats are on the lake in the distance... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of boys are fishing on the river bank beside a dam. Buildings are on the far bank. Caption reads: "Fishing at Dam on Rock River, Jefferson, Wis." |
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| Description: | A man is standing on the ice of a lake, using an ice chisel to make a hole in the ice. Behind him a man is sitting on an Evinrude snowmobile prepping the t... |
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| Description: | View across river towards a man wearing waders standing knee-deep in the Bois Brule River near the shoreline. He is holding a fishing pole in his right han... |
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| Description: | View across water towards an elderly man standing calf-deep in the Bois Brule River holding fly rod. |
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| Description: | View across water towards two men fishing from a rowboat. Trees are along the opposite shoreline. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two men sitting in a rowboat. One of the men is holding up a stringer of fish. |
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| Description: | View across stream towards a man bending over to net a fish he has caught in the Bois Brule River. He is holding a fishing pole in his right hand, and the ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Herbert E. Brumder, left, posing and holding a fishing net in one hand, and the rope to a fishing bucket in the other hand, while standing in front of a mo... |
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| Description: | Map showing the location of the Little Bohemia lodge and restaurant, with major routes from Chicago and eastern and central Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A woman standing on a shoreline is showing the fish she caught on the hook with the cane pole. A wooden canoe is beached beside her on the sand. |
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