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| Date: | April 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men smelt wrestling at the Smelt Carnival in Marinette. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| 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: | 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. |
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| Description: | Grass meadow with rotting tree stumps, possibly after a fire. |
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| Description: | Inset of head and shoulders portrait of "Queen Marinette," along with an image of her home, which was one of the earliest houses in Marinette. She was the... |
| Date: | July 1946 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
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| Description: | White pines on the Menominee Reservation. A man is standing next to the trees on the left-hand side of the image. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with four men walking on snowshoes through a forest. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the west wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | The screw ferry, "Ann Arbor No. 7." The ferry was later named "Viking," then "Viking I." |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks eating in a cook shanty; probably early twentieth century. |
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| Description: | Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting at the base of a large tree at Flambeau State Forest. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men stand at the base of the White Pine tree reported in 1945 to be the largest in the world at 16.8' in circumference and 140.42' in height. Larger sp... |
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