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Mennonite Children Walking on Road

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Description: Five Mennonite children walking down the middle of the road after a fishing trip.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Photograph

Man Fishing From Bridge

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Description: A man fishes from an earthen bridge. There is a house or barn in the background.
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Men and Woman on Bridge

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Description: Two men fish from an earthen bridge while a woman stands holding a fish. There is a house or barn in the background.
Photograph

Fish and Gun Club

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Description: A road passes in front of the Fish and Gun Club, a two-story building with people sitting and standing on the porch. Another dwelling stands beside it and...
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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 ...
Photograph

Snagging Sturgeon from Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ...
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Covered Bridge on the Delaware River

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Description: Elevated view of a covered bridge spanning the Delaware River. Signs on the bridge read, "$25.00 Fine for Riding or Driving Faster than a Walk on this Brid...
Postcard

Greetings From Devil's Lake

Date: 07 28 1933
Description: Colorized postcard in the Tall-Tale style. Two men standing on the shore are pulling a third man's leg out of a enormous fish's mouth. Two automobiles and ...
Photograph

Noel's Bait and Sport Shop

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: Exterior view of Noel's Bait and Sport Shop with cars parked in the lot in front of the building. Fishing nets can be seen on display in the window. The bu...
Map or Atlas

Hunting and Fishing Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan reached by the Chicago and North Western Railway

Date: 1916
Description: This map shows the locations of hunting and fishing resorts in the northern Wisconsin counties of Forest, Iron, Oneida, and Vilas, and in Gogebic County in...
Map or Atlas

Bad River Indian Reservation, Wisconsin

Date: 1939
Description: This map shows the towns to Gingles, Sanborn, and Guney as well as Chequamegon Bay, Kakagon River, White River, Marengo River, Bad River, Potato River, Vau...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Fun Map : Picturing the Vacation of Opportunities of this Great Outdoor State

Date: 1936
Description: This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state....
Photograph

Pier and Warehouse

Date: 1920
Description: View from hill looking down at a wood framed warehouse building on a pier with boats docked alongside. Near the warehouse are fish net drying reels. Wooded...
Map or Atlas

Tourist Map of Marinette County, Wisconsin

Date: 1941
Description: A tourist map of Marinette County, Wisconsin that includes indexes of the lakes and rivers in the county which also identify the fish present, a list of ra...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Hunting & Fishing Paradise

Date: 1935
Description: This pictorial map of northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the Chequamegon National Forest, the Red Cliff Indian Reservation, highways and roads, and...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Famous Hunting and Fishing Grounds Embraced in the Lake Region of Gogebic County, Michigan, and in Iron, Vilas, Forest, and Oneida Counties, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: This late 19th century map of northern Wisconsin and a portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula shows the township and range grid, the (Lac du) Flambeau India...
Map or Atlas

Price County : the Real Wisconsin Northwoods!

Date: 1986
Description: This late 1980s map of Price County, Wisconsin, shows facilities and lands open for public recreation, hunter walking trails and ski trails, campgrounds, b...
Map or Atlas

Historic Jackson County

Date: 1976
Description: Panel title. Shows railroads, roads, highways, boundaries, dams, public hunting and fishing grounds, cemeteries, forest ranger stations, plant life, and s...
Photograph

Scene Along Lake Mendota

Date: 1902
Description: Scene along “Willow Drive,” later known as "University Drive," on the shore of Lake Mendota, showing the neo-Gothic carved bridge. View from shoreline of t...

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