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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Boats and people at the Bayfield dock on Labor Day 1912. Boats include Thelma; Lusitania; which later became a U.S. Mail boat; Captain Angus'... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a group of people in a large model launch with an American flag. Caption reads: "On Mendota Lake near University of Wisconsin-Madison Boat House." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of Alma across the Mississippi River, with a man in a rowboat in the foreground. Caption reads: "Alma, Wisconsin, from the Mississippi." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Narrows Bridge, with a group of people on the left sitting and standing in a boat. The far shoreline is tree covered. Caption reads: "The Narro... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a steamboat landing on Lake Geneva. A group of women are gathered on the shore in the foreground. Caption reads: "Steamboat Landing,... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards a bridge, with children in a boat in the left foreground, and two other people in a boat in the center. Caption reads: "The Old Bridge, Stough... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across water toward buildings on the right, with men standing on a platform at the shoreline in front of a large building. Three more smaller building... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a man on a boat on lake, and a bridge road in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Greetings from Okauchee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A fisherman is reclining in his boat at sunset as many fish swim in the lake. He is drinking beer out of a tap attached to a barrel floating in the water. ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1922 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a fisherman in a rowboat catching a giant turtle. The male companion of the fisherman has fallen in and lost his hat amidst the excitement.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of three fishermen in a rowboat, seen from behind, trying to reel in giant fish. A shadowy forest is visible on the opposite side of the river... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man pulling a giant fish into his rowboat. As the text box in the lower left corner--which reads "Swallowed The Pole and All"--suggests,... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view from the water. Buildings are in the background, a boat and bridge are in the center. A small boat with people in it are in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | View from lake of the buildings of the Sunflower Cottage Resort. People are canoeing and boating in the lake in front of the resort, and a few people are s... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of the boat landing in front of Cliff House, a resort hotel, in Devil's Lake State Park. Two men show off their catch of seven fis... |
| Date: | 01 02 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view across water towards a tree-covered shoreline near Dr. Whitcomb's Sanitarium. Two men are sitting in a rowboat near another man ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view over the Mississippi River showing of the town of Alma. Bluffs are behind the town. In the foreground, two men wearing hats are ... |
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| Description: | Postcard of the "Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post" geological formation on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands. View of the shoreline and a man sitti... |
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