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| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of raftsmen on a sandbar working a jack. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several raftsmen working a jack on a sandbar. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Advertising photograph of a fisherman posing with fish in hand on a beach in front of an International Scout pickup. |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
| Date: | 08 05 1922 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg... |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor standing on a lake pier with either his son Frederick or Robert. Both of them are wearing swimming suits, and a boat is underneath the pie... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Ed Thompson of 921 Jenifer Street is shown fishing along the shore of Lake Monona behind Fauerbach's Brewery, located at 651-3 Williamson Street. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, second from the left, with one of the early groups that he guided into the wilderness near Ely, Minnesota. The other men are identified as Dr... |
| Date: | 07 28 1953 |
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| Description: | William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party. |
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| Description: | One man sits in the bow and one man stands on shore holding the stern of a birch bark canoe at the edge of a lake. They may be Indians. The man in the cano... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of family members dressed in bathing suits, sitting on rock strewn incline in front of a cottage. One man is dressed in trousers and sh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two boys in swimsuits and two well-dressed men pose beside a rowboat which has been pulled up on the sandy shore of, most likely, Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on dock each holding a lake trout. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive... |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys pose by a pond. A boy holds a long, probably bamboo, fishing rod. Two men jokingly pose as if they are dancing the tango. |
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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... |
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