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| Description: | View from shoreline towards eight men trout fishing on the Brule River. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Keep Cool with Coolidge in Wisconsin This Summer." A stamp presumably issued by the Outdoor Club of Wisconsin, to promote tourism in northern Wisconsin. I... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a pile of fish on a stringer lying in the grass, these fish may have been caught on Lake Namakagon. A person's hand appears at the top, holding the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Alton Van Camp wearing a hat holding a huge record Muskie listed at "59 1/2 lb" caught by his friend Louie Spray. Caption reads: "Louie Spray's 59½... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Shows potential fishing areas by species and season, as well as sand and rock bars, weed beds, public facilities, points of interest, and selected business... |
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| Description: | Two views of Bear Lake. The top is a daylight view with some fall color. The one below is at sunset, with two people in a canoe on the lake. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs of campers fishing. Upper left photograph is an elevated view of several campers in a boat fish... |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. The left one is a view over water towards two young campers fishing in a rowboat. The right one... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This brochure was intended for tourists and shows resorts, lakes and railroads in northwestern Wisconsin and part of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Also inclu... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum ice fishing on a lake. He is sitting on a chair near an ice fishing hut. On the left a car is parked with the trunk open. Other ice fishing huts ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two images: the one on the left is titled: "A Sample Catch" and is of three men holding the fish they caught, with a dog sitting a... |
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| Description: | View across frozen lake towards cars parked on the ice near fishing huts. A shoreline lined with trees is in the far background. |
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| Description: | View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank holding a fishing rod and looking at a "leapin... |
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| Description: | View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank reeling in a large leaping walleye. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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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 (inte... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | This colored map displays Wisconsin and bordering areas of Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan. There is color-coding on the map to indicate National Forests, an... |
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