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A Good Day's Catch
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Two smiling men are sitting on the ground and posing with seven good-sized fish. The man on the right is holding a line with a lure on it above the open mouth of one of the fish. There is a tackle box on the ground in the center, and two rods with reels are propped in the foreground.
1940
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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Good Catch
1935
View across water towards a boy sitting in the stern of a boat holding a stringer of five good sized fish, their tails in the water. A lure is hanging from his fishing rod. There is a bed of waterl...
Fishing Display
1940
A display by the Wisconsin Conservation Department erected in a large tent extols the value of smoking fish for food. There are posters identifying different fish species and describing fish harves...
At the Beach
1940
View from shoreline towards two men and two women in bathing suits standing and holding hands while standing in shallow water as a small wave breaks around them. On the reverse of the photograph is...
Tiger Muskie
1940
A taxidermied specimen of a tiger muskellunge photographed in a naturalistic setting.
Picnic on Shore of Flambeau River
1940
A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid metal picnic hamper, utensils and thermos bott...
Black Bear
1940
A photographic postcard described on the reverse: "A black bear in the Wisconsin north woods."
