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Man Fishing in Chair

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Description: View across a marshy area towards a man, Mike Heberlein (of Cambridge), fishing while sitting in a wooden, ladder-back, dining chair that is submerged in t...
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Sid Shooting Pool

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Description: Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, "shoots" pool with a rifle at a local bar.
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Typing Fisherman

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Description: A man wearing a straw hat, coat, eyeglasses, and hip waders is sitting on a log typing on a typewriter. A fishing pole is propped up on top of the typewrit...
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Eager Fisherman Reeling in Trout

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Description: View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank holding a fishing rod and looking at a "leapin...
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Eager Fisherman Reeling in Trout

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Description: View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank reeling in a large leaping walleye.
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Man Pretending to Play a Fishing Pole with a Bow

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Description: A man sitting on plastic buckets in a store selling floor materials pretending to play a fishing pole with a bow. The man is wearing hip waders pulled down...
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Man Sitting in a Chair in the Water Fishing

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Description: View across water towards a man wearing a hat and hip waders sitting on a wooden chair partially submerged in the water. He is holding a fishing pole. A ma...
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Man with Shotgun Hunting

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Description: Al Dvorak with a shotgun walking on a road. Snow is on the ground.
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Man Posing with Fishing Rod and Waders

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Description: View of Stan Hamre, laying along the concrete sidewalk at the foot of Sid Boyum's front porch steps, with one of his legs resting on one of the steps. He ...
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Man Posing with Fishing Rod and Waders

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Description: View of Stan Hamre laying along the concrete sidewalk at the foot of Sid Boyum's front porch steps, with one leg resting up on the steps. He is partially l...
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Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham Posing with Trout

Date: 05 1973
Description: Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham posing in Sturgeon Bay with seven trout they caught on Lake Michigan hanging from pegs under a sign that reads, "Bay Chart...
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Peter H. Burno Locomotive

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Description: A woman stands next to a locomotive on display behind a fence at House on the Rock. This image was included in the attraction's brochure. The sign on the t...
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House on the Rock Board of Directors

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Description: Alex Jordan and the board of directors for posing for a group portrait at House on the Rock.
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After a Ducks Unlimited Meeting

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Description: Two men from Ducks Unlimited are playing cards at a table, while another man is looking at a poster created by Sid titled: "Secrets of a Sweater Girl." The...
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Happy Birthday Doc

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Description: Group portrait of six men holding up a signboard saying "Happy Birthday Doc" in the middle of a card table. The group is sitting and playing cards in what ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1970
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Poster

"Big Oil"

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Description: A naked man (bartender Earl Ehrhart from Union House) boiling in a cauldron, labeled "Degreaser for fats" over a wood fire. Two people, depicted as African...
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Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...

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