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Boys with Nets Heading to Catch Frogs in the Lake.

Date: 09 09 1960
Description: Three unidentified boys running down the sidewalk on their way to catching frogs in the lake with their nets.
Photograph

Frog Crossing

Date: 06 2014
Description: View of a large sign in the Arboretum posted at the side of a road depicting a frog on a branch to mark the crossing of frogs between wetland and lake. In ...
Photograph

A Place for All People

Date: 09 2013
Description: A mural of a hummingbird, a robin, a fox, a cat, a frog, a mouse, and a turtle together in a lush grove. The mural is on the wall at the neighborhood cente...
Photograph

Frog Jumping Contest

Date: 08 1971
Description: Jerry Kretschmann and his first place frog in action.
Print

Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with a frog, wearing a red and black checked suit and a bow tie, dancing on a pine branch. He has one candy cane in his mouth and one in his o...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, inspecting a frog with three young boys.
Photograph

Frog Jumping Contest

Date: 04 18 1944
Description: Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest.
Photograph

Frog Jumping Contest

Date: 04 18 1944
Description: Frog jumping contest showing Jim Brandenburg, 4134 Hiawatha Drive, coaching his frog "Rebel" on to victory.
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Kickers with Frogs

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a group of giant frogs next to a pond. One of the frogs is kicking a boy's arms, causing them to fly upwards. A dog is sitting by the feet ...
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...
Photograph

Frog Nailed to Stake in Diorama

Date: 1979
Description: Close-up of a frog nailed upright to a stake in front of a backdrop of a diorama. The mouth of the frog is propped open with a stick.
Photograph

Frog in Diorama of Living Room

Date: 1979
Description: View looking down at a diorama of a living room with doll-sized furniture. A frog is sitting in a wing-back chair next to a fireplace.
Postcard

Easter Greetings

Date: 1915
Description: Easter postcard with a well-dressed rooster, with arms instead of wings, carrying a cane and an Easter Egg on a ribbon. He is wearing a jacket with a pussy...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1983
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1976
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 1, 1976 with Sid's caption: "The Atwood-Ave Clean Fresh Water An...
Photograph

Boy and Bullfrog

Date: 08 1969
Description: A young boy is amazed as he holds a big bullfrog.
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...
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 (Unpublished)

Date: 
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: the Madison skyline from the lakeshore of Lake Monona; Ted Ryan, a road maintenance worker, ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1974
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fisherman in waders, standing in ankle deep water and bending over with one hand in the water. He is looking towards h...

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