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| 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: | 08 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Contestant baits her hook in Washington Park at the annual Milwaukee county park commission's fishing rodeo. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a man and woman with their fishing gear in front of their Scout II truck on the shore waving to a man in a boat. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Children standing in front of fish nets drying on net reels. |
| Date: | 03 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Prototype of "Sure Grip" fishing pole holder for carrying fishing poles on the top or sides of a car. Shows device with an advertising card attached that i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View down road towards boats docked at the fishing wharf at Ephraim in Door County. The bluff on the horizon is in Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 07 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Small nickel-plated fish lure with float and hook, designed by S.R. Blackstone. |
| Date: | 01 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Ice fishing on Lake Mendota. A traffic problem was created in the village of Maple Bluff during the weekend when hundreds of persons from all parts of sout... |
| Date: | 01 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Hundreds of persons from all parts of southern Wisconsin descend on Lake Mendota to fish through the ice for perch and other pan fish. The picture was take... |
| 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: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Fishing nets drying along the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Robert M., Jr., and Philip Fox La Follette on a fishing trip in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards a dam in Jefferson. Two men are fishing from the shoreline in the foreground. The Woolen Mills are on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The Wolf River House. The advertisement reads: "The Wolf River House; Hunters' and Fishermen's Resort; Rates $1.50 per day - $9.00 per week; Special Rates ... |
| 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: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Dick Charmley and Gary Davies standing on the shore of Lake Mendota with a fish (carp) they caught while spear fishing. |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Dick Charmley and Gary Davies examining their apparatus for skin diving and spear fishing in Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the dam across the Rock River near the Empire Mills. A man holding a fishing rod is standing in the foreground on the left. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
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