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Hunting Party

Date: 1920
Description: A group of men stand with rifles at the Echo Lake Hunting Club Camp. Gutted deer hang to cure outside the cabin.
Drawing

Traps for Small Game

Date: 
Description: Illustration of wooden trap for small animals.
Photograph

Three Deer Hunters

Date: 10 10 1943
Description: Hunters Harold Vandervort, Tom Massengase, and John Voell pose with deer carcass. Original caption reads: "Deer taken by John R. Voell, 226 Bank St., Fond ...
Photograph

Man Carrying a Dead Deer

Date: 
Description: Two hunters in woods, one carrying a dead deer on his back.
Photograph

Dead Deer on Railroad Platform

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Description: Four men pose with guns and dead deer on a railroad platform.
Photograph

Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
Photograph

Deer Hunters' Camp

Date: 1904
Description: Five deer hunters posing at a camp next to deer carcasses hanging up on a log pole.
Photograph

Deer Hunters at Harshaw

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Description: A group of men pose with guns and deer carcasses on the railroad platform at Harshaw.
Photograph

One Car, Two Men, Three Deer

Date: 1931
Description: Two hunters with rifles pose in the snow by a car with three deer carcasses.
Photograph

Bow Hunter and Deer

Date: 1940
Description: Man in a cardigan and knit hat holding a bow and arrow poses with a dead deer on the hood of a Chrysler.
Photograph

La Follette Kills a Bear

Date: 1907
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., (with rifle), Robert M. La Follette Jr., and guide Jake Borah with the bear shot by the senator.
Photograph

A Beaver Pool

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Description: Sketch of a beaver pool lined with trees, including various depictions of Indians hunting beaver.
Photograph

Beaver Hunting Techniques

Date: 
Description: An early drawing depicting various beaver hunting techniques.
Print

Wolf River House

Date: 1914
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 ...
Photograph

Pontoon Airplane

Date: 
Description: Two men standing on a pontoon airplane with their dog and a line of ducks they successfully hunted.
Photograph

Milibrook Fox Hunt

Date: 
Description: View of men on horseback and dogs preparing for a fox hunt.
Photograph

Crow Hunt

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Description: Oswald Neesvig, President of Madison (Wisconsin) Packing Company, draped in and standing among his quarry from a day of crow hunting.
Photograph

Nee-Pee-Nauk Clubhouse

Date: 1945
Description: The Nee-Pee-Nauk clubhouse, at the head of Puckway Lake. This is a duck hunting club first organized in 1882 by A.H. Sellers, President of Chicago Guarant...
Photograph

Big Bill Thompson and Friends

Date: 
Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Maine Times

Date: 11 26 1971
Description: Cover of "Maine Times," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a boy holding a rifle and posing next to a deer, suspended from his garage. The...

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