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White Bass Run

Date: 1942
Description: People fishing for bass off dock.
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Riverbank Card Game

Date: 1910
Description: Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank.
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Downstream from Larks Hotel

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Description: Crandall family, including a dog, sitting under trees on a cliff overlooking a river. From left to right: George Crandall, Lois Crandall, Phyllis Crandall,...
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Ada Bass and Friends near Fox River

Date: 1900
Description: Ada Bass with friends on the shore of the Fox River.
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Group Relaxing Around a Hammock

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Description: A group of men, women, and children relax in and around a hammock that is near a river.
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Men and Women in Buggy

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Description: Group seated in a horse-drawn buggy are on the side of a road next to a river. The two women are sitting on the laps of the two men.
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Devil's Football

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Description: Stereograph from shoreline of three people in a canoe next to the rock formation Devil's Football, near the Deep Fill.
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Sunday Reader on the Pier

Date: 1968
Description: A man in a sweater vest, wool pants and eyeglasses sits in the sun on the pier reading. Gently rippling water fill most of the photograph while the foregr...
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Sitting By the River

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Description: Two men sit on the shore of the Chippewa River near Brunet Falls. The light is dim. There are large trees behind them.
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Three Men Fishing

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Description: Three fishermen and a black dog sit on a log overhanging a river. One man is reeling in a fish and another holds his catch. The man in the middle is holdin...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

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Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all
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Relaxing in a Canoe

Date: 1911
Description: View across water towards one of The Gang reclining in a canoe on the water. His hat is pulled over his eyes and a fishing pole is propped up in the front ...
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Nap Afloat

Date: 09 1973
Description: Teen boy resting on an inner tube while floating down the Apple River, a very popular summer activity.

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