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Planting Pike
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Two unidentified men, working from a boat or raft, are dumping the contents of milk cans into the waters of a lake. There are small cottages on the shore in the background. On the reverse of the print is written: "Planting pike. Lake Vieux Desert."
1935
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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WHi 131474
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