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Photograph

Circus People with Fish

Date: 
Description: A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip.
Drawing

Barman — John

Date: 1932
Description: John bartending at The Log Cabin.
Drawing

Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at the Ship Ahoy.
Photograph

Stripping Tuna

Date: 10 27
Description: Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food.
Photograph

Russell Bull Fishing in Highlander Lake

Date: 
Description: Russell Bull, regional Packinghouse Workers director, fishing in Highlander Lake. He has just caught a largemouth bass.
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor with Pike

Date: 1940
Description: The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room.
Photograph

Fishermen on Boat

Date: 1938
Description: Two men lifting a net full of fish over the side of a boat. The original caption reads: "Shrimp fleet."
Photograph

Mirabella Ice Company Fish Store

Date: 05 12 1939
Description: Men stand around a fish hanging from the ceiling inside the wholesale and retail fish store owned by the Mirabella Ice Company. The original caption reads:...
Postcard

Hunters and Fishermans Tavern

Date: 
Description: View of the bar at John Kinziger and son's Hunters and Fishermans Tavern. A man, presumably John Kinziger, stands behind the bar. The walls are covered wit...
Print

Johnson Fish Co. Memohead

Date: 
Description: Memohead of the Johnson Fish Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin, wholesalers of "fresh. salt. & smoked fish, oysters and live crawfish," with a fish being pul...
Print

Pullman Buffet Menu

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit...
Print

Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 574-588

Date: 
Description: If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward?
at what kind of life
along what kind of dotted lines?

At the top of the stairs, t...
Print

Bookbinders Sea Food House Menu

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ...
Photograph

Catching a Fish in Moor's Barber Shop

Date: 
Description: A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis...
Photograph

Catching a Fish in Moor's Barber Shop

Date: 
Description: A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1968
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on...
Photograph

Man Driving Tractor-Drawn Binder

Date: 09 09 1923
Description: Left side view of a man using a tractor-drawn binder in a field. In the background down a slop a man and two children are watching. Harvested grain is in t...
Photograph

Dyeing Fingerlings for Later I.D.

Date: 1971
Description: A man is bending over and standing on a flat metal rail over a vat of water. The man is wearing a dust mask over his face, and is holding two screens dyed ...
Photograph

Packing Smelt

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Commercial fishermen hauling in their net and immediately packing the small silvery smelt into boxes fo...

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