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Farm Hazard: Unsafe Hunting Practice

Date: 12 1926
Description: Staged scene of two hunters in the woods with guns. One man is walking under a branch with his rifle pointed behind him. This photograph was taken for Int...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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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Boy Aiming Shotgun

Date: 1920
Description: Young boy standing on lawn aiming shotgun into trees. In the background is a lake or river.
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...
Postcard

Camp Milo on White Sand Lake

Date: 07 02 1925
Description: Photographic postcard of a poster promoting Camp Milo on White Sand Lake. On it are photographs of the cabins, tents, lake, and boats on the shore.
Photograph

Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson

Date: 1921
Description: Anatol Spencer (played by Wallace Reid) stands in a doorway with his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson) in this scene still from Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 producti...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Trapper with Hides

Date: 1920
Description: A Native American trapper sits on his haunches in front of a building where various hides on stretchers have been hung to dry. The building is sided with s...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Summer Outings Wisconsin Michigan

Date: 1921
Description: This map shows in red the NorthWestern Railway Line routes running from Chicago, Illinois to northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The map includes cities and t...
Map or Atlas

The Great North Woods Tourist and Fishing District of Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: This map shows in red the NorthWestern Railway Line routes running from Chicago, Illinois to northern Wisconsin. The map includes cities and towns, lakes, ...

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