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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Date: 07 1946
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike.
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Park Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Card advertising the Park Hotel on the Capitol Square. Includes a drawing of the hotel, and a fish on a fishhook at the end of a fishing line. Text reads: ...
Photograph

Yahara River Hearing by Dane County Park Commission

Date: 07 13 1949
Description: Dane County Park Commission meeting to hear complaints regarding dead fish in the Yahara River. Stoughton Mayor Truman Felland is standing at the right, te...
Photograph

Governor's Fishing Expedition

Date: 09 25 1937
Description: Governor Philip Fox La Follette (center) together with Governors Horner (Illinois) and Kraschel (Iowa) pose in front of the fish they caught during a fishi...
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Governor Knowles Prepares for Fishing Season

Date: 04 1965
Description: Governor Warren Knowles holding a fishing pole and a fly. He is seated at a table covered in fishing tackle and additional fishing gear hangs on a rack at ...
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Union Man Fishing in Secession Pond

Date: 1860
Description: A man dressed in a blue jacket and light blue trousers fishes in a "SECESSION POND." He is sitting on the Union flag. His fishing line has a Union flag on ...
Photograph

Fishermen Showing Their Catch On Ocean Avenue

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Description: Fishermen show off their catch on Ocean Avenue in Manasquan Beach. Several dwellings and buildings, a road, automobiles, power lines, and a flag pole are ...
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The One That Didn't Get Away

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Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, his son Craig, and the catch of the day.
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Geo. Hartman Fish Market

Date: 1910
Description: Five men posing in front of the floating fish market, which is on the shore of the Mississippi River. One of the men is holding a large buffalo fish. The m...
Print

Menu Cover for Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Mr. Trygve Lie

Date: 02 02 1951
Description: Front cover of the menu and program for the Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN...
Drawing

Proposed Sports and Recreation Area, Wisconsin Pavilion

Date: 05 01 1964
Description: Architect's rendering of a sports and recreation exhibit area at the Wisconsin pavilion for the 1964 New York World's Fair. A man at right is shown fishing...
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. Schmedeman Showing Off Their Catch

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Albert and Katherine Schmedeman are standing outdoors, both holding a small stringer with a large fish hanging from it. Both Albert and Katherine are holdi...
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Tommy Thompson at the Fish Opener

Date: 1988
Description: A young Governor Thompson sits on a chair in a boat holding a bass in his right hand and a fishing pole in his left. He wears a t-shirt, jeans, and a baseb...
Map or Atlas

This Map of North America, According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated by your Lordship's Most Humble Servant Herman Moll, Geographer

Date: 1715
Description: One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map, it shows rivers and portages, cities, Indian villages, wind directions, routes...
Map or Atlas

Amérique Septentrionale Publiée sous les Auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans Prémier Prince du Sang

Date: 1746
Description: Map of North America from the southern portion of James Bay to Florida. It shows the colonies, cities, Native American land, and topological and geographic...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Whole Continent of America: Particularly Shewing the British Empire in the Northern Part of America, with the Divisions of the New Governments since the Accession of Canada and Florida

Date: 1780
Description: Map of North and South America, showing the boundaries of colonial territories, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Particular em...
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Governor Knowles with a Rainbow Trout

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Description: Governor Warren Perley Knowles, 37th Governor of Wisconsin, holding up a rainbow trout at Teal Lake. He is holding his fishing pole in his right hand, and ...
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Battle of the Muskies

Date: 09 25 1937
Description: After a long day of fishing, the governors of three states are posing with ten muskies hanging from a birch log wired to two trees. Known as the "Battle of...
Postcard

Bureau of Fisheries

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Description: View across water towards willow trees along a shoreline. There is a culvert on the left, and a culvert in another pond in the background on the right.
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Robert J. Matheson and Harvey R. Abraham Fishing

Date: 1953
Description: Group portrait of Republican State Assembly members Bob Matheson and Harvey Abraham (with a third, unidentified person) standing on a dock. Abraham is hold...

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