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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on riverbank with canoe paddle and boat moored at tree. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Henry A. Dahl, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a fisherman. Pictured with a long wooden pole and a straw hat. Part of a year... |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, wearing his characteristic attire, on a trip on the Upper Churchill River. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Political scientist Samuel L. Popkin and his wife. This photograph was taken about the time Wisconsin-born Popkin was jailed for his refusal to testify abo... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Young couple in a park or rural scene near a river. The man, “Mr. Fish” has lifted the young lady, Ida Langenberger, up onto his left shoulder. He is holdi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith and his wife, Mary, pose next to trees by a rivers edge. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Jennie and Edgar Krueger holding a pole between them on their shoulders, with two carp strung up on it. They are standing on a bank next to a river, with a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two hunters pose in a wooded area. Their kill, two deer, hang upside down from a wooden beam supported by branches of trees. The deer have what appear to b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on a flat boat on Wolf River. They hold stringers of fish suspended from a wooden pole between them. Behind them is what may be a gas pump on... |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Candid head and shoulders portrait of Gaylord Nelson. In the background is a body of water and trees. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man is standing on the bank of the Montello River just below the dam, which was owned and operated by the Montello Granite Company. On the o... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Sisters Jessie, left, and Lucy Underwood posing with their bicycles on the Montello River bridge in Montello. A man is standing in the far background on th... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | One of the boys (probably Carl) posing next to two canoes at an Indian village below Pansy. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | From left to right are Clay Judson, Carl, and Doc Copeland playing music by the St. Croix River. Doc purchased the drum at a Native American village. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A quiet moment between Clay and Doc. They're standing by the river, and Doc is smoking a cigarette. |
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