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Photograph

Stripping Tuna

Date: 10 27
Description: Elevated view of workers removing bones from tuna and selecting different cuts to be used for canned food.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Nip and Tuck

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of a man fishing. The man, wearing waders and up to his knees in water, is struggling to reel in a giant bass. The words "Nip & Tuck with a Ba...
Photograph

Dead Fish in the Yahara River

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki...
Photograph

Stocking Fish

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Description: Conservation advocate Sigurd F. Olson stocking smallmouth bass in the canoe country near the Minnesota-Canadian border.
Photograph

Woman Holding Trout and Fly-Fishing Rod

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Description: A woman wearing waders and a hat holds up a trout in her right hand and a fly-fishing rod in her left hand. Attached to her hat are fly-fishing flies, and ...
Photograph

Yahara Fishermen's Club Percharee

Date: 01 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station.
Photograph

Yahara Fishermen's Club Percharee

Date: 01 17 1954
Description: Mrs. Ken Christenson pulling a perch out of a hole cut in the ice of Lake Mendota during sub-zero weather.
Photograph

Waiting for Opening Day Catch

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Description: Composite photograph of one forming the background that shows a man with a pipe in his mouth, fishing at the edge of an inlet of a lake and stream, and of ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Reverse

Date: 1979
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a...
Photograph

Eager Fisherman Reeling in Trout

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Description: View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank holding a fishing rod and looking at a "leapin...
Photograph

Eager Fisherman Reeling in Trout

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Description: View across water towards a shoreline where an older goateed fisherman wearing hip waders kneels on the bank reeling in a large leaping walleye.
Photograph

Man Holding Northern Pike

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Description: A man wearing hip waders is standing and holding a Northern Pike in his hand near the open trunk of a Packard Ultramatic. People are standing in the backgr...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1964
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from a riverbank of a fly fisherman in hip waders, who is standing in a stream while hooking a bass. The fish is ...
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

Date: 1972
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from across a stream towards a cigar-smoking fisherman (probably Sid Boyum) on the opposite side of the bank. He ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1968
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on...
Drawing

Fisherman and Fish

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Description: Drawing of a man standing and fishing in a lake. He has a pipe in his mouth, and is wearing a hat and waders, with a creel over his shoulder. His fishing p...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season (Unpublished)

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Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: a cigar-smoking fisherman holding a broken rod; a young Nancy Ryan with one leg propped on a ...

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