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Carl A. Peterson Fishing

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Description: View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1407: Arpin Avenue. Boys Turning Out Of Bunks on Cook Float

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1421: On A Sandbar. Working A Jack

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of raftsmen on a sandbar working a jack.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1422: On A Sandbar. Working A Jack

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of several raftsmen working a jack on a sandbar.
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Riverbank Card Game

Date: 1910
Description: Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank.
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Fisherman Posing with International Scout Pickup

Date: 1961
Description: Advertising photograph of a fisherman posing with fish in hand on a beach in front of an International Scout pickup.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Daddy of Them All

Date: 08 05 1922
Description: Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg...
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Ed Thompson, Fisherman

Date: 10 19 1950
Description: Ed Thompson of 921 Jenifer Street is shown fishing along the shore of Lake Monona behind Fauerbach's Brewery, located at 651-3 Williamson Street.
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"The Rugged Four"

Date: 1926
Description: Sigurd Olson, second from the left, with one of the early groups that he guided into the wilderness near Ely, Minnesota. The other men are identified as Dr...
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Birch Bark Canoe, Chain of Lakes, Wis.

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Description: One man sits in the bow and one man stands on shore holding the stern of a birch bark canoe at the edge of a lake. They may be Indians. The man in the cano...
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Catch of Fish

Date: 1937
Description: Two men standing on dock each holding a lake trout.
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Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
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Mill Pond

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Description: A group of men and boys pose by a pond. A boy holds a long, probably bamboo, fishing rod. Two men jokingly pose as if they are dancing the tango.
Print

Jacob Johnson & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Jacob Johnson & Company of Bayfield, Wisconsin, a wholesale dealer in fresh and saltwater Lake Superior Fish. Features a cartoon of a man wea...
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Seven Men Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: View of seven men wearing pants, boots, belts and long-sleeved button-up shirts holding a box and three stringers of fish they caught. The wooden boats in ...
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Jacko Slough

Date: 1910
Description: View along shoreline of a man fishing on a bank while smoking a pipe in Jacko Slough.
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Skiers

Date: 01 1928
Description: Winter scene with Ferdinand Hotz, holding a cigarette, posing on skis. His wife, Clothilde, stands on the left with a long walking stick; daughter Helen (L...
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Men Posing with Fish

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Description: Two men are posing standing on the left with their catch of fish. Another man is sitting on the ground with a dog under a tree on the right. All three men ...
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Driving Crew on the Logs

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Description: Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the...
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Korn Brothers

Date: 1910
Description: Three men (Korn brothers), all wearing hats, and two of them in suits, hold a bamboo pole holding stringers of fish between them. They are standing on a do...

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