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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, docked at the American Steel Barge Company. |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
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| Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a... |
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| Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen on rocks alongside the Pike River. |
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| Description: | Fisherman cooking on campfire at the edge of a river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
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