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Indian Spearing Beaver

Date: 1821
Description: Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver.
Photograph

Three Hunters

Date: 11 19 1934
Description: Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley.
Postcard

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Gun Safety

Date: 12 1926
Description: A man smoking a pipe is pulling a gun by the muzzle out from the back seat of an automobile, while another man holding a gun is standing beside him. The sc...
Photograph

Raccoon Hunters

Date: 1955
Description: "This photo, taken by the light of the full moon, shows coon hunter Alfred 'Butch' Muche patiently waiting for his fellow hunters. Kodak Super XX film was ...
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.
Photograph

Portrait of Lewis Adam Struble

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Description: Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co...
Photograph

Portrait of Lewis Adam Struble

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Description: Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co...
Photograph

Hunting Scene

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Description: Exterior portrait of two hunters posing with a deer carcass, a fox carcass and rifles on the edge of a stream in winter. Buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Hunting Camp

Date: 1909
Description: View of a hunting camp with the hunters assembled with their rifles in front of deer carcasses.
Photograph

Hunter

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified young man sitting on a low stump with a shotgun resting in the crook of his left arm. He is wearing a plaid cap and smoking a pipe. There i...
Photograph

Duck Hunter

Date: 1939
Description: A man wearing waders and smoking a pipe, is sitting and holding several ducks on his lap, and has his shotgun resting on his right leg. His left hand is re...
Photograph

Rabbiting

Date: 1904
Description: Art Frank, left, and Herbert Paul Brumder posing with game, carrying their shotguns "broken." Frank, who is smoking a cigar, is holding a bag from which he...
Photograph

Duck Hunter

Date: 1910
Description: An unidentified man is standing beside an open roadster-style automobile. He is holding a shotgun and has a brace of ducks draped around his shoulders. The...
Photograph

Portrait of a Hunter

Date: 1961
Description: A hunter posing on a stone wall with his shotgun and the grouse he bagged. He is wearing a billed cap, plaid coat, tough trousers and lace-up knee-high boo...
Postcard

Rabbits

Date: 11 21 1911
Description: Text in the upper right corner in red ink reads: "Things to do in Rozellville, Wis." Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed...
Photograph

Hunters in Car with Deer

Date: 1918
Description: Four men posing in a car on a road, with a man sitting behind the steering wheel on the right side. The car has a license plate on front that reads: "5083 ...

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