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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Draper Hall boathouse on Lac La Belle with a row of boats in front of the building. Two men stand on the pier. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of people on a wanigan, the "Dancing Annie," used by Chippewa Lumber and Supply Company near Eagle Rapids. A wanigan is a floating office and supply ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man fishing in a rowboat seen through a stand of Birch trees on Miles Lake. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men fishing in a rowboat powered by a trolling motor. They are framed by two trees on the shore of Crab Lake. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Calumet Harbor in Columbia County Park, best known for its boating facilities. In the foreground are the docking facilities, with one boat tied up in the d... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of people fishing and boating in Washington Park Lagoon. Three boys are fishing with long bamboo poles from the bank on the left, and two boys are in ... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Threatening skies loom over boats, piers and boathouses in Eagle harbor. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The Amelia-D is docked at a pier on Green Bay. The shoreline and clouds are in the background. A sailboat and motorboat are moored in the distance. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A fish is scooped in a net after being caught with a fishing pole at Twin Lakes. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat dock on Boulder Lake, or Little Rice Lake, with several boats pulled up on the tree-lined shore. There is a pier in the le... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Boats moored at a boat slip. In the foreground is a bench near a concrete wall over which rope is hanging in loops. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from East College Avenue bridge of motor boats exiting Lock #4 on the Upper Fox River. |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of fireworks over Lake Michigan. Boats are moored in the harbor for a good view. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Fishing boats wintering on Lake Superior, which is frozen and covered with snow. Wooden fishing boxes are strewn in the foreground, and a wooded shoreline ... |
| Date: | 01 1977 |
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| Description: | A boy is blowing warm air on his little brother's hands to warm them up. They are standing on ice at James Madison Park. In the background are boats pulled... |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boats moored to a dock at a marina on the Mississippi River in early summer make an interesting pattern. There is a person walking on the ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boathouses floating on the water at piers along the shore of the Black River. Some of the boathouses have been owned by many generations o... |
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