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Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
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After the Hunt

Date: 1920
Description: Two unidentified young men pose in the snow with their firearms behind seven dead rabbits displayed on a barbed wire fence; there are three dogs on the oth...
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Two youthful hunters, Denny Reul and Tom Goedell of Madison, watching Jerry Teesdale pointing out the vital points a hunter must hit to get his buck at a t...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Captain Leo Lewis, inspector-instructor at the Naval-Marine Corps Reserve Training Center in Madison, points out the correct way to fire a rifle from a pro...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Russ Beach of Madison receives coaching on the firing line at the Winnequah Gun Club near Lodi during a gun safety session for hunters. The instructor is N...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 10 1953
Description: Keith Johnson of Chicago looking over a rack of rifles during a gun safety session at the Winnequah Gun Club.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A Young Alfred Lunt as Rip Van Winkle

Date: 1904
Description: A young Alfred Lunt dressed as Rip Van Winkle, using clothing and a musket borrowed from farm hands and leggings made of gunny sacks.
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Prairie Chicken Hunters ??Sign on tent reads

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of five men and a boy are posing standing and holding rifles in front of two tents. Dogs are sitting at their feet, and a stringer o...
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Kaltenborn Interviewing a Commander During the Spanish Civil War

Date: 1936
Description: Hans V. Kaltenborn, wearing a helmet, interviews one of Generalissimo Franco's commanders during the siege of Madrid. They are surrounded by young soldiers...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Five teens, both male and female, are lying prone in the indoor rifle range at Middleton Sportsmen's Club, looking down the barrels of their rifles which a...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Carl Wettengel, a board member of the rifle club, addressing a room full of parents and youth members inside the clubhouse about the history of the group. ...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Club officers in a meeting. At left, Roger Bell is receiving an award from the National Rifle Association (NRA) presented by M.D. Doyle, instructor at the ...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Gerald E. Annin, a range officer, checks the target of Barbara Anderson at a meeting of the Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club.
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Hallie Hohf instructing her father, Paul Hohf, in the proper adjustment of the sights on his rifle at a meeting in the Club's indoor shooting range.
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Jan Bruhn, 15, chatting with her grandfather, A.T. Bruhn, at the Club. He headed a Junior Rifle Club in Denmark in 1884-1886 at the age of 9.
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Germania Statue

Date: 1901
Description: A young man, possibly a son of George Brumder, posing with a long gun near a statue of Germania. The sculpture is mounted on an elaborate stone plinth at V...
Postcard

Capture of the Hodag

Date: 08 14 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l...

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