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| Description: | View across water towards Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, fishing from a rock on a misty morning near the family home. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes. |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of woman smiling and wearing a bathing suit while sitting in the back of a motorboat. She is steering the outboard motor on a lake. Behind her is the ... |
| Date: | 07 25 1980 |
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| Description: | A family relaxes by their backyard pool, while a father tosses his infant son gently in the air. |
| Date: | 07 10 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl play in the sand at the beach. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
| Date: | 06 22 1983 |
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| Description: | Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head. |
| Date: | 10 10 1977 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of a skateboarder doing a handstand on a skateboard. Pedestrians are watching from the left. |
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| Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Farmall Cub tractor and an International truck on a parade float for the Automotive Golden Jubilee celebration May 31-June 9. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | International Model S speed truck carrying reindeer and men dressed as clowns, Eskimos, and Santa Claus during a winter parade. A blanket on reindeer reads... |
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| Description: | Looking out of the Cave of the Dark Waters through the Reflection Arch. A person dressed as an "Indian" is standing just inside the cave opening, appearin... |
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| Description: | Spearing sturgeon at the dam in Kilbourn. There is a man with a sturgeon on a spear in the foreground, and another man with a spear is in the background. A... |
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| Description: | Devil's Lake Vicinity; "Effects of photographing among the rocks", foot of West Bluff. Man posing sitting and eating. |
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