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Smelt Rigging
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Elevated view from shoreline towards a boy using a single paddle to propel a small rowboat on the Sheboygan River. There are five rigs set up along the shores to net smelt. There is a fence and hills along the opposite shoreline.
April 1938
Coon, C. L.
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