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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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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: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A fisherman baits his hook at a park bench missing its seat. A metal fence divides the paved shore from the west channel of the East River in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards fishing nets drying on the rail of the pier at Dr. Gordon's cottage on North Bay. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of a man with a fishing pole standing in the shade provided by a small roof at the end of Dr. Gordon's pier. Fishing nets dry alo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man fishing from the pier at Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek is seen across the bay. Dr. Welcker's Casino is the ... |
| Date: | 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Tom and Bill O'Dea pose with a large Northern Pike in front of their parent's garage door on Park Street. They are wearing one piece coveralls and boots. T... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background.... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View across water towards two men sitting in a small launch with a canopy near the shore. A fishing pole is resting on the foredeck. There is a small wave ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | G.W. Roskie, left, of South Dakota, and Dr. Lange of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pose with their rifles on the porch of the Montello House Hotel. Between them... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | Canadian geese floating near the shore on a lake. In the distance a fisherman is standing on a small boat reeling in his line. |
| Date: | 01 2014 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline on a sunny day of snow-covered, frozen Monona Bay. People in the distance are standing or sitting near ice fishing holes and ice fishin... |
| Date: | 05 07 1988 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times on May 7, 1988 with Sid's caption: "Fish history begins with hooks made of wood, ... |
| Date: | 02 2014 |
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| Description: | Bill Casper (left) with the last sturgeon he speared at a DNR registration station near Lake Winnebago. He is joined by his cousin, Paul Langenfeld (right)... |
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| Description: | Carl Peterson relaxing in a rocking chair at his desk. He is smoking a pipe and gazing up at a pair of mounted deer horns holding a fishing pole and rifle.... |
| Date: | 03 08 2015 |
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| Description: | View from rocks shoreline of people walking or fishing on the snow- and ice-covered lake near a red ice fishing hut. Other fishing huts are in the distance... |
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| Description: | Real Photo Post Card of a group of fishermen taking a food and beverage break. Three men and two youth are lounging on the ground with bottles and sandwich... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man fishing from a rowboat in the millpond above Timme's Mill on Mirror Lake. The boat is framed by rock formations and tree on both sides... |
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