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Women's Diving Lessons

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Description: A woman is standing in a rowboat in a diving position teaching four women in a lake how to dive. The rest of the women are in shirts printed with S.S.B.H. ...
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Woman in Rowboat

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Description: Woman standing in a rowboat near shore, testing the water with an oar.
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Women in Rowboat

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Description: Three women sit in a rowboat on a river.
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Woman on High Rock

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Description: A woman in an Indian dress and headband sits at High Rock in the Upper Dells looking over the Wisconsin River at a tour boat.
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Woman with Fish

Date: 1975
Description: Woman in a boat showing a fish she has just caught on the Mississippi River.
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Launch Boat at Eagle Point

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Description: Elevated view of the doctor in a launch boat at Eagle Point. Two women are sitting in the front of the boat.
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Group Swimming and Boating

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Description: Three women and two men in swimming suits wade in the river, while two women sit in a rowboat on shore, possibly the Matt Olson farm campground.
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Willow Walk

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Description: Cyanotype image of a woman in a rowboat on the shore of the University Willow Walk, near picnic point.
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Women in Two Rowboats

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Description: Four women, two in each boat, row near a pile of logs along a shoreline.
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Three Women Fishing

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Description: Three women, wearing dresses and bonnets, standing up in a small boat fishing. A tree-lined shore is visible in the background.
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Paulina Bunyan

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Description: Woman dressed as Paulina Bunyan (female version of Paul Bunyan) standing in the Minirama recreation of the Wisconsin Dells. She holds an axe in one hand an...
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Two Women in Painted Rowboat

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Description: Two women in hats sit behind a board painted with a decorative rowboat for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
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Boating on Lake Siskiwit

Date: 1938
Description: Three women in a rowboat off a dock on Siskiwit Lake.
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Group of People in "Leona" Motorboat

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Description: View across water towards a group of people, two men and five women, in a motor boat.
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Part of Western Shore of Cedar Lake

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Description: Hand-colored view of four women in a rowboat on Cedar Lake. One of the women is leaning her elbow on a post sticking out of the water. The tree-lined shore...
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Couple in a Rowboat

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Description: View across water towards a man rowing, and a woman sitting, in a rowboat on the water. The woman is holding an open umbrella. In the background is a shore...
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Young People in Rowboat on River

Date: 1885
Description: Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella...
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Sea Caves

Date: 1920
Description: View across water towards three men and a woman posing while standing in a wooden boat in a sea cave in the Apostle Islands. Rock formations and other sea ...
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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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