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Hoonch-Schad-E-Gab

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Hoonch-Schad-E-Gab (Big Bear), aiming a bow and arrow and wearing a fur hat with feathers...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map of Green Bay and Fort Howard

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, and the East River. A reference key at the ...
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Big Bill Thompson and Friends

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Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
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Hunters with Rabbits

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Otto Radke, Andrew Echstein, and Jake Lange posed in front of a painted backdrop. They have their guns leaning in front of t...
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Young Hunter

Date: 1925
Description: A studio portrait of a young man in front of a painted backdrop wearing rubber boots holding his gun and a dead fox with his dog standing nearby.
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Night Hunters

Date: 1890
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two hunters, Jacob Gross, sitting and holding a lantern, and Henry Herold, standing and holding a rifle a...
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Hotel Alphin

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Description: Deer and a variety of other game are strung from a tree in a hunting camp at Hotel Alphin. An open tent stands to the right.
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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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Dudley Station Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Dudley Station, a hunting and trout fishing resort in Dudley, Wisconsin. On the left is an illustration of a fisherman holding a fishing pole...
Map or Atlas

Hunting and Fishing Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan reached by the Chicago and North Western Railway

Date: 1916
Description: This map shows the locations of hunting and fishing resorts in the northern Wisconsin counties of Forest, Iron, Oneida, and Vilas, and in Gogebic County in...
Map or Atlas

Map of Hunting and Fishing Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan

Date: 1903
Description: A map of northern Wisconsin and Michigan showing the names and locations hunting and fishing resorts in the area, as well as location of Chicago and North ...
Map or Atlas

Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan

Date: 1914
Description: Two maps of northern Wisconsin counties of Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Chippewa, Douglas, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Polk, Price, Sawyer, Tayl...
Photograph

Hunter with Gun and Dogs

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young man holding a shotgun, and two dogs posing on a sheepskin rug.
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Hunting & Fishing Paradise

Date: 1935
Description: This pictorial map of northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the Chequamegon National Forest, the Red Cliff Indian Reservation, highways and roads, and...
Map or Atlas

Burnett County, Wisconsin : Official County Map

Date: 1991
Description: This 1991 map of Burnett County, Wisconsin, shows Governor Knowles State Forest, wildlife areas, public hunting grounds, and other outdoor recreation facil...
Map or Atlas

Price County : the Real Wisconsin Northwoods!

Date: 1986
Description: This late 1980s map of Price County, Wisconsin, shows facilities and lands open for public recreation, hunter walking trails and ski trails, campgrounds, b...
Photograph

Ducks Unlimited Dinner

Date: 02 03 1959
Description: 420 men turned out for the annual Ducks Unlimited dinner at Club Chanticleer. Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1938 by persons interested in wildlife conser...
Print

Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
Photograph

The Duck Hunters

Date: 1910
Description: Five duck hunters stand in front of Mike Gavin's Buffet holding guns, paddles, and stringers of dead ducks.
Map or Atlas

Door County, Wisconsin Fun Map

Date: 1970
Description: This map shows roads, parks, swimming beaches, golf courses, yacht harbors, light houses, airports, public hunting grounds, waysides, schools, and fishing ...

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