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Fishing Contest
1940
View of large crowd of boys and girls fishing along the shoreline with bamboo poles at a lake. Very likely a sponsored "fishing contest." There are a few people out on the lake in boats.
Men in a Rowboat Fishing
1930
View through birch trees looking down at two men fishing from a rowboat near the shoreline. Another boat is tethered to the shore nearby.
Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102
circa 1960-1969
The measure of solitude fades in the ripplesand there are more prizes than there are fish
Two Men Fishing
1938
Two men fishing from a small boat powered by an Evinrude outboard motor. One of the men is smoking a pipe. In the background is a wooded shoreline.
Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6
circa 1960-1969
We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sakeBut the community interests ought to come first, I thinkThere has to be access to nature si...
