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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men, one standing one crouching, in a wooden rowboat on Forest Lake. The man standing is reeling in a fish that is making a big splash in the water. |
| Date: | 08 25 1903 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view across water towards people in boats on the lake in Decatur Park. It is evening and the moon is shining on the lake. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people on boat dock on Namakagon Lake. Some of them are holding stringers of recently caught fish, and wooden rowboats are tied to the doc... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a view of a lake from a shoreline. A power boat and a fishing boat can be seen through the trees. "Cable, Wisc." is printed in red on the... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Jacob Johnson & Company of Bayfield, Wisconsin, a wholesale dealer in fresh and saltwater Lake Superior Fish. Features a cartoon of a man wea... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a one-story log cabin, part of the Great Outdoor Club on North Lake. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of two people in a canoe on Lake Owen near White Pine Lodge. Just behind them is a swimming platform. In the foreground is a dirt path in the grass, ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state.... |
| Date: | 05 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Jean Whiffen and Marilyn Tormey pose for a portrait in a sailboat. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
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| Description: | View of of Devil's Lake from Inspiration Point. A man is sitting on top of a rock formation in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View towards lake and mountain with an International Scout hauling a camper parked next to the shoreline. A man, woman, and three children are gathered beh... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across water of a man in the driver's seat of an International Scout parked in the water at the shoreline of a lake. On the left posing at the shoreli... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dr. Smith's brother-in- law, Franklin E. Bump, and three of his children, Franklin E. Jr., Warner, and Millard Bump, standing in front of a tent in th... |
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| Description: | View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails. |
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| Description: | Several men relaxing on the grass at the edge of a lake. There are boats pulled up on the shore near them. The man standing on the far right with his hand ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states.Information on the quality and type of any road shown (bitum... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young adults are on the deck over looking Archibald Lake. Tall white pine trees are visible. Names from left to right: {Unknown}, Lillian Wheeler (?)... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men fishing in a rowboat powered by a trolling motor. They are framed by two trees on the shore of Crab Lake. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A fish is scooped in a net after being caught with a fishing pole at Twin Lakes. |
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