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Skin Divers Posing with Fish

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Dick Charmley and Gary Davies standing on the shore of Lake Mendota with a fish (carp) they caught while spear fishing.
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Skin Divers Examining Diving Equipment

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Dick Charmley and Gary Davies examining their apparatus for skin diving and spear fishing in Lake Mendota.
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Teen-Agers Skating

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Winter scene with Dick Roberts and Mary Lita Jensen, West High School students (Madison, Wisconsin), ice skating.
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Mary Brandel and Friends on a Pier

Date: 1925
Description: Mary Brandel, right, in bathing cap, poses with two friends on a pier to which a rowboat is moored. They are all wearing bathing suits. The far shoreline o...
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Boat Landing at Armson's Report — Lake Mason

Date: 1926
Description: View from shoreline of boat landing. A boy rows a boat nearby, and another boy fishes from a boat resting on the shoreline.
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Swimmers on a Pier

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Description: Large group of young women and girls lined up on a pier. A group of them are perched on a diving platform on the end. A man and woman are in a boat in fron...
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Aldo Leopold as a Young Man

Date: 1904
Description: Aldo Leopold standing in a boat with a group of young people. He is wearing pants, a shirt and a bow tie. Buildings can be seen on the shoreline in the bac...
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Kugler and The Gang

Date: 1914
Description: From left to right: Clay, Jack, and Edwin Kugler are next to a canoe on the shore of Pine Lake.
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The Boys Go Swimming

Date: 1916
Description: Jack and Russell Greene go swimming in the lake after setting up camp. There is a canoe in the foreground.
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Running Into the Lake

Date: 1916
Description: One of the Greene boys running into the lake.
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Carl in a Canoe

Date: 1911
Description: Young Carl paddling his canoe on the water. A tree-lined shore is in the background.
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Uprooted Tree

Date: 1911
Description: Carl Greene and Bill Marr posing and standing with their arms spread wide at the base of a large, uprooted tree at the shoreline. Their canoes are in the w...
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Burntside Lake Campsite

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang at their camp in a shady spot by Burntside Lake. The canoes are in the water on the left.
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Bathing

Date: 1911
Description: Carl, and one of The Gang standing with a dog, are bathing in Sturgeon Lake. Another man is standing on the shore.
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G. Swenson Store

Date: 1911
Description: View across water towards the Gang standing in front of G. Swenson's Store in Kettle Falls, which is partially on the water. The steamer schedule is handwr...
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B Walks a Boom

Date: 08 1915
Description: B (William Norris) walking a boom in the water with Jack looking on from a canoe nearby. B is using a paddle to balance himself. This is in the Narrows bet...
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Lunch Stop at Sand Point

Date: 1910
Description: The Gang stopping at Sand Point for a lunch break. The canoes are at the edge of the shoreline, while everyone is sitting on the ground eating. The canoe o...
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Becalmed

Date: 1932
Description: Barbara Brumder, wearing a light-colored dress, is sitting on the bow of a dinghy sailboat, paddling across the glassy waters of Pine Lake. She is the daug...

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