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Circus People with Fish

Date: 
Description: A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip.
Photograph

Ice Fishing on Lake Superior

Date: 1942
Description: Two men and two boys standing on ice in front of a windsled. All four are holding lake trout.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Trout on Truck

Date: 1976
Description: Photomontage of a giant trout resting on the back of a bright red flatbed pickup truck. Children look on with awe; one is pointing at the trout. White curs...
Photograph

Chequamegon Bay Fishermen

Date: 1955
Description: Three fisherman in a boat pulling in a net full of fish on Chequamegon Bay while a man and a boy look on.
Photograph

Chequamegon Bay Fishing

Date: 1955
Description: Four men and a boy netting trout from boat on Chequamegon Bay.
Photograph

Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele...
Photograph

Woman Holding Fish

Date: 
Description: A woman displays a fish, probably a trout, by a string as a young girl looks on. Additionally, several large tents are erected in the background of the pho...
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor Children on Pier

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Description: Ellen, Donna and Fred Taylor standing on the dock of a lake with a string of fish held up between them.
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor Family on Lake Shore

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Description: The J. Robert Taylor family on what appears to be a lake shore, possibly cleaning fish. From left: Donna Taylor Adams, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Fred Taylor, ...
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor Children with Stringer of Fish

Date: 1910
Description: J. Robert Taylor's children holding a stringer of fish. From left: Fred Taylor, Ellen Taylor Higgins, Donna Taylor Adams.
Photograph

Delbert and Mike Esser with Fish

Date: 05 05 1952
Description: One of the finest catches reported to date for the trout season is that pictured with its captors. Delbert Esser and his son, Mike, Cross Plains, landed t...
Photograph

Waiting for Bass Run

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of people in a park along the shoreline waiting for the White Bass run.
Book or Pamphlet

Spearing Fish in Winter

Date: 1884
Description: Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Features

Date: 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Six year old twins Billy and Martha Haygood lying in the grass next to a pond, looking down at trout fingerlings swimming at the fish hatchery located on F...
Photograph

Deep Lake

Date: 1928
Description: View down slope towards Deep Lake. There is a girl standing in a rowboat at the shoreline. She is holding up her catch of the day. In the background a man ...
Postcard

The Big Muscalunge [sic] 53 1/2 inches, Weight 40 lbs

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard view of a boy with a large muskie displayed on a table in front of him. Caption reads: "66 - The Big Muscalunge 53 1/2 inches, Weight...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

Date: 
Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 574-588

Date: 
Description: If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward?
at what kind of life
along what kind of dotted lines?

At the top of the stairs, t...
Photograph

Gary McKenna Holding a Fish

Date: 08 22 1959
Description: Gary McKenna holds a fishing rod and small fish in one hand and a flashlight in the other. The boy won the flashlight as a prize for being the first to cat...

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