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One Car, Two Men, Three Deer

Date: 1931
Description: Two hunters with rifles pose in the snow by a car with three deer carcasses.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters...
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Tall-tale Postcard: A Good Bag

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters, rifles in hand, transport the giant rabbits they have killed homeward. They have tied the rabbits to a wooden pole, which they rested between...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits Are Scarce

Date: 1909
Description: Rear view of a hunter hauling away a giant rabbit through a snowy forest landscape. He is wearing a leather jacket with fringe and boots. Text in the lower...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Hunting Rabbits

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of three hunters surrounded by a large group of giant rabbits in the woods. One of the hunters is in the act of shooting a rabbit. The snowy s...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Salted

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of a hunter pouring salt on the tail of a giant rabbit. The hunter is holding a rifle and wearing leather boots and gloves. The surrounding w...
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Hunters with Deer Carcasses

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Description: Three men standing holding guns with two deer carcasses on the ground. They are posed in front of a log cabin in the snow. A boy is seated on one of the de...
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David Goodvillage with Horse and Gear

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man, identified as David Goodvillage, is wrapped in a plaid blanket and wearing a hat. He is posing mounted on a white horse loaded with hunting...
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Portrait of David Goodvillage with Horse and Gear

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Description: Portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, identified as David Goodvillage, wrapped in a plaid blanket and wearing a hat. He is posing mounted on a white horse loaded wit...
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Wisconsin Conservation Warden

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Description: Wisconsin Conservation Warden checking on beaver traps.
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Olson's Wolf Trip

Date: 1927
Description: Sigurd Olson, left, traveling by dogsled with game hunter Uiho Salminen as part of his study of predator control for his master's degree.
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Dogsled Loaded With Caribou Antler Trophies

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Description: A dogsled loaded with caribou antler trophies travels through Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Two women and three men gather around the dog sled while dog...
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Sheep Hunters Cache At Head of Totlat River

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Description: View of Sheep Hunters' Cache at the head of the Totlat River in Alaska featuring a hunter in a wooded campsite surrounded by trees and snow.
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Deer Hunters in Camp

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Description: Five men holding hunting rifles sitting or standing to the left of a log cabin (only a corner of which is in the image) in front of the hanging carcasses o...
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Fox Hunting

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Description: Group portrait of men after a fox hunt. Four men kneel on the ground next to their hunting dogs and rifles. The men are clad in heavy boots, gloves, and co...
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Successful Fox Hunt

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Description: A hunter poses with his gun and a dead fox after a successful winter hunt. Three other foxes hang from the eaves of a house. Snow covers the ground behind ...
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After the Hunt

Date: 1920
Description: Two unidentified young men pose in the snow with their firearms behind seven dead rabbits displayed on a barbed wire fence; there are three dogs on the oth...
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Dorothy Knowles Hunting with Dogs

Date: 1968
Description: Former First Lady Dorothy Knowles hunting with two dogs. She is posed aiming her gun. There is snow on the ground and trees in the background.
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Hunting Scene

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of two men, two dogs and a boy posing sitting and standing on the snow-covered ground on the right side of a small wooden structure....
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International Scout on Hunting Trip

Date: 1975
Description: International Scout in the foreground. In the background are two hunters walking into the woods in the snow on a hill.

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