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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota skin-divers, Dick Charmley and Gary Davies, shown with fish that they have harpooned. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Dick Charmley and Gary Davies standing on the shore of Lake Mendota with a fish (carp) they caught while spear fishing. |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Dick Charmley and Gary Davies examining their apparatus for skin diving and spear fishing in Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Virginia Hess posing with a muskellunge near the fish scale at Ross Teal Lake Lodge. Virginia Hess was a member of the Hess Oil Co. family, was from Chicag... |
| Date: | 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features an illustration of a swordfish being reeled in by men on a... |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Mr. Hall posing with large fish in front of Hall's Motel. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vern Frechette (left) and Leonard Larson show their catch of trout caught during ice fishing on Chequamegon Bay. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Three fisherman in a boat pulling in a net full of fish on Chequamegon Bay while a man and a boy look on. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Four men and a boy netting trout from boat on Chequamegon Bay. |
| Date: | 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Fisherman John Chingo displaying two Northern Pike he caught in Chequamagon Bay. Photograph probably taken in Hec's Bar on East Main Street in Ashland. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Catch of lake trout displayed by three fisherman on the pier at Little Sand Bay. From left to right are Martin Johnson, Hermy Johnson, and Myron Lohman. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the trading post at Willie's White Birch Lodge. Fishing lures are on display on the back wall behind a counter with signs that read: "Pat'... |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fisherman Roy "Chubby" Goodlad is shown at the open trunk of his car loading in fishing poles, a tackle box, and hip waders in preparation for the opening ... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Ed Thompson of 921 Jenifer Street is shown fishing along the shore of Lake Monona behind Fauerbach's Brewery, located at 651-3 Williamson Street. |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man fishing along the shore of Lake Monona behind Fauerbach's Brewery, located at 651-3 Williamson Street. Four Lakes Boat Company, 425 Sou... |
| Date: | 01 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Helen Viktora and Magdalen Viktora ice fish on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 01 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Mike Wagner, age 77, is shown "loaded down" with ice fishing equipment on Lake Mendota. |
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