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| Description: | The measure of solitude fades in the ripples and there are more prizes than there are fish |
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| Description: | Each little world has its private Atlas working his ethic in longhand toward the stage set for the point of No Return |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Steve Meleski kneeling near his ice fishing hole at Thunder lake. Other people are fishing on the lake behind him. The shoreline is wooded, and there are b... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Lee Jameson, Walter Jameson, and Jim Stern clearing an ice fishing hole in Thunder Lake. |
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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: | 01 22 1932 |
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| Description: | Two men fish from a diving platform while a third fishes from the shore at Jeffry's Mill. The tall, wood frame mill building is in the background, with an ... |
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| Description: | Small lake showing 19 fishing parties in small boats, all in one area. |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard along shoreline of a group of people fishing at Rudolph Mill. Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin, William Schmitt, is standing in the fo... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men fishing from a small boat powered by an Evinrude outboard motor. One of the men is smoking a pipe. In the background is a wooded shoreline. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A fisherman poses on rocks with his fishing pole and a stringer of fish. |
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| Description: | A man wearing suspenders and a hat stands holding his catch of a large fish. He holds his fishing pole in his left hand, and a dog is lying at his feet. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of large crowd of boys and girls fishing along the shoreline with bamboo poles at a lake. Very likely a sponsored "fishing contest." There are a few p... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View through birch trees looking down at two men fishing from a rowboat near the shoreline. Another boat is tethered to the shore nearby. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View across water of the Old Mill surrounded by trees and water. Water is coming out of an opening in an archway of the mill. On the left automobiles are p... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting on benches at a table in front of a fishing camp log cabin in northern Wisconsin. Both men are wearing hats, and the man on the right h... |
| 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... |
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