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Eskimo Duck Dance

Date: 1930
Description: Eskimo duck dance to celebrate the spring hunt.
Photograph

Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
Photograph

Dutch Tavern

Date: 04 01 1941
Description: Interior of Dutch Tavern, 121 North Blount Street, featuring pinball and cigarette machines.
Photograph

Four Lakes Sports Co. Workshop Interior

Date: 10 30 1946
Description: Interior of Four Lakes Sports Company at 2441 East Washington Avenue. Shows part of office, workshop, and gun rack with guns, in relation to open stairway....
Photograph

Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
Painting

Archaic Deer Hunters

Date: 1997
Description: A watercolor of a set of archaic Indian deer hunters with their kill.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Landing a Pike, Attica, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men on a lakeshore grapple with a giant pike. Two men pull on a rope hooked to the pike while two more stand ready with harpoon-like sticks. Ano...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Kickers without Frogs

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Kickers." A boy wearing waders and holding a rifle stands with his arms ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Landing a Pike, Raleigh, N.D.

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men on a lakeshore grapple with a giant pike. Two men pull on a rope hooked to the pike while two more stand ready with harpoon-like sticks. Ano...
Photograph

Bows, Arrows, and Target at Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: Display of bows, arrows and a target in a corner with tree branches and gravel at a hobby show. There are labels on some of the items.
Photograph

Buffalo Hunting

Date: 1907
Description: Photograph of a painting of Native Americans hunting buffalo with spears and bows. Text on photograph reads: "Grand Forks, N.D. Buffalo Hunting- Olden Time...
Photograph

Men Carrying Dead Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men carrying dead lambs back to the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp.
Photograph

Sylvester with Slingshot

Date: 01 01 1902
Description: Syl standing in front of a fence holding a slingshot.
Photograph

Buffalo Hunting

Date: 1907
Description: Depiction of Native Americans buffalo hunting in North Dakota on horseback. A copy of a painting, possibly from 1907. Caption reads: "Buffalo Hunting in th...
Photograph

Cupid

Date: 1930
Description: A studio portrait of a child as Cupid wearing wings and holding a bow and arrow, posed leaning against an owl and sitting on a tree stump.
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.
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier in a tan uniform reading a book with a little girl. The cover of the book says "FRENCH." She has a blonde ponytail with a blue ...
Photograph

Wisconsin National Guard

Date: 1975
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard during the Menominee takeover of the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in 1975.
Photograph

Soldiers Relaxing

Date: 1942
Description: Two soldiers laughing and relaxing under a tree in Panama. One man is lying on his back and the other man is leaning against him. They are both wearing wor...

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