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| Date: | 09 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette (Wisconsin) and Governor Henry Horner (Illinois) enjoy a laugh in the boat during a fishing trip. |
| Date: | 09 25 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys are standing on a boulder on the shore of a lake or stream in a wooded area. One boy is holding a thin stick which has a fishing line a... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across water towards an unidentified man sitting in the stern of a small boat, holding a fishing rod. A younger man, sitting forward, is rowing. There... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three anglers wearing waders, including a woman on the left, are casting while standing in shallow water. The woman has a kreel on her hip, and the man on ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1939 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Conservation Department float in the 1939 Chicago American Legion Parade. The float features two women who are standing in a canoe pretending t... |
| Date: | 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Conservation Warden Emil Kramer is standing on a float in the American Legion National Convention parade in Boston, Massachusetts. He is wearing waders and... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two smiling men are sitting on the ground and posing with seven good-sized fish. The man on the right is holding a line with a lure on it above the open mo... |
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| Description: | Small lake showing 19 fishing parties in small boats, all in one area. |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow with a young boy, (possibly his son Casey), several unidentified men and a game warden next to a lake in northern Wisconsin with their boa... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, either campers or fishermen, portaging a canoe through backwoods cut-over forest area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View through birch trees looking down at two men fishing from a rowboat near the shoreline. Another boat is tethered to the shore nearby. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man fishing in a rowboat seen through a stand of Birch trees on Miles Lake. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man wearing a plaid shirt, waders, and a hat with flies tucked in the band casting into a stream. The caption on the negative envelope r... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men fishing in a rowboat powered by a trolling motor. They are framed by two trees on the shore of Crab Lake. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing waders and a cap is posing on a rocky shore holding up a large muskie. There is a wooden canoe in the shallow water behind him. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, wearing a hat with fishing flies on the hatband, is posing in a canoe holding a walleyed pike. Several hooks are protruding from the f... |
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