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Eskimos Catching Crabs

Date: 1930
Description: Wenga and Amutuk catching crabs in the Arctic.
Photograph

Hoyt Park Toboggan Slide

Date: 12 23 1947
Description: Three teenagers posing on the steps of the toboggan slide at Hoyt Park. Ascending the steps are Al Gay, Mary Homann, and Ruth Ann Gay. Two young boys are s...
Photograph

Men with Two Small Bucks

Date: 1910
Description: Bringing in two small bucks, dead and loaded on a sled behind a team of horses, Old Camp 2. The third man from the right is Clarence Deitz.
Photograph

Ice Fishing on Lake Mendota

Date: 01 19 1951
Description: Helen Viktora and Magdalen Viktora ice fish on Lake Mendota.
Print

Christmas Joy

Date: 
Description: Holiday card of a girl standing and holding the rope of a sled, while looking at the two gifts on it. She is wearing a green coat and hat with white fur tr...
Photograph

U.S. Signal Service Crew

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Description: View of four men of the U.S. Signal Crew out on a dogsled to repair a break in a telegraph line. There are cabins in the background. Copyright by A.J. John...
Photograph

Milk Delivery

Date: 1958
Description: "A sled was used to convey the milk cans. Shown are Ralph Widmer, Bill Breitag, and Ken Reimer."
Photograph

Smiling Man on Sled

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Description: Winter scene with a man lying on a small sled with a big smile on his face. He is wearing dark clothes and a cap. A snow-covered hill, a barn and fences ar...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Skid

Date: 1927
Description: David Kincaid, caretaker of the Hotz Europe Lake estate, stands on a skid pulled by a horse. His axe is embedded in one of the runners.
Photograph

Men Logging

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
Photograph

Ice Fishing Trio

Date: 01 23 1957
Description: Lee Jameson, Walter Jameson, and Jim Stern clearing an ice fishing hole in Thunder Lake.
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

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Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified woman and man posing sitting in a chair or sled in a grassy yard in front of trees and bushes. The woman is wearing a l...
Postcard

Harold McCormick and Daughters

Date: 1914
Description: Harold McCormick and his two young daughters pose on a sled/sledge in front of a painted background.
Photograph

Man Posing with Toboggan

Date: 1890
Description: Portrait of a man wearing a stocking cap, mittens and a double-breasted coat reclines on a toboggan which is supported on a studio prop at an angle in fron...
Photograph

Man Ice Fishing

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Description: A man wearing boots and coat is sitting on a box on a sled. Behind him is a cloth (perhaps a wind break) with "S.E. BOYUM" printed on it. The man is holdin...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Sid and Three Men on Frozen Lake

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Description: Group portrait of Sid Boyum and three other men, likely of the Gisholt Ice Chippers fishing club, standing on the ice with sleds and fishing equipment.
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

Downhill Haul of Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Six men are posing on and next to a large stack of logs, which are piled on a sled drawn by two horses. The men are all carrying cant hooks. The initials "...

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