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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Fishermen fishing off of a long pier. Industrial buildings are across the water in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | Syl with two women and a man, all wearing hats, fishing off of a dock in Sturgeon Bay. Behind them is a small wooden structure. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A young Syl fishing with three other adults off a pier using cane poles. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water of boats docked near houses on Jones Island. To the right two flags are strung up flagpoles near a building with a covered porch, perhaps a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A collage of images including a sailboat, a fish, a man fishing, and a forest scene. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a blue jacket and light blue trousers fishes in a "SECESSION POND." He is sitting on the Union flag. His fishing line has a Union flag on ... |
| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from bridge towards a tall smokestack standing on the left side of the Yahara River where it is flowing out of Lake Mendota. Remnants of the foundatio... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of the Sugar River below a dam. A man stands in the water fishing. Two others stand on the bank at left and one is seated on the dam. Three sticks are... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A young Aldo Leopold posing proudly with his bamboo fishing pole, stringer of perch and a dog. The family was on vacation in the Cheneaux Islands, near Mac... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Kenosha harbor. A group of men fish from a pier in the foreground while several boats float through the harbor. A tug is pulling a large s... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | This late 19th century map of northern Wisconsin and a portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula shows the township and range grid, the (Lac du) Flambeau India... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water towards an elderly man using a long pole to fish from a steep rock ledge on the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | A group of young men and women posed before the tents of a hunting and fishing camp. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring a color illustration of two boys with fishing poles. One byu is wearing a hat and the other boy is holding a hat. In the background m... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View through trees towards a cabin. One man holding a rifle stands in the center at the left front side of the cabin, and a group of four men sit on the ri... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of men sharing a meal at a fishing camp near Thunder Lake. |
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