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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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Woman Trout Fishing

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Description: A fashionably dressed woman fishes for trout while standing in the Namekagon River.
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Three Women

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph. The woman in front is displaying a Muskellunge, caught in Long Lake, on the residential lawn of M. Newman. Two other woman are standing behind...
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Fly Fishing

Date: 1940
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 ...
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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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Two Women Catching Fish

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Description: Two young women wearing waders are standing in a creek or small river. One of the women is holding a net just above the water, while the other women is exa...
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Woman Watching a Man Fishing

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Description: A woman stands on the shoreline nearby while a man wades in a stream to fish.
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Wisconsin Idea Theater Group

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Description: Members of the Wisconsin Idea Theater Group in costume, one man posing dressed as a fisherman, a woman as a bathing beauty, and another person as a giant f...
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Test Seining on Kentuck Lake

Date: 1958
Description: View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up ...
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Gypsy Rose Lee Fishing

Date: 1950
Description: Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake.
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Girl Wading in Fox River

Date: 1900
Description: Young girl in foreground, wading in Fox River. Woman standing in a rowboat, pulled to shore, holding a fishing pole and fish.
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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.
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Cold Vigil

Date: 1976
Description: A woman wearing a hat and a plaid scarf over her head is ice fishing in Governor Dodge State Park. She is sitting on a bucket with her feet on a board.
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Men and Women by Tents

Date: 1879
Description: A group of interestingly dressed men and women posed before a line of tents. The men are wearing uniforms, possibly those of a band. Fishing poles and cha...
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Camping in Bradley Park

Date: 1936
Description: Two smiling men, one carrying long fishing poles and the other a set of paddles, are walking away from their campsites while two women are working at a pic...
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Rowboats and Young People Fishing

Date: 1890
Description: Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ...
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Landing a Muskie

Date: 09 26 1939
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...
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Camping Scene

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Description: Exterior view of four women and one man displaying a stringer of fish hanging on a bicycle.
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Camping

Date: 07 1939
Description: Elevated view of two young women, wearing nearly identical bib overall-style playsuits, are standing posing holding stringers of pan fish. There are three ...
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Woman Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: View of a woman wearing a bathing suit and hat holding up a heavy line full of fish caught at Nature Lovers Paradise resort on Jackson Lake.

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