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Canoeing
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View across water towards six women, three in each of two canoes, are smiling as they paddle near a shoreline in the background. There are buoys farther out in the water in the background on the right, and the far shoreline is in the distance. In the right foreground is part of a United States flag.
1940
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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Paddling Upstream
1940
An unidentified man and woman are paddling their canoe against the current in the fast running Flambeau River. A small stand of leafless trees and blackened tree trunks on the banks provide evidenc...
At the Beach
1940
View from shoreline towards two men and two women in bathing suits standing and holding hands while standing in shallow water as a small wave breaks around them. On the reverse of the photograph is...
Returning to Camp
1940
Photographic postcard view of young men and boys paddling canoes toward the shore of Boulder Lake. A canoe on the left bears the YMCA insignia. Other youth are working on small sailboats in the ba...
Poling a Canoe
1940
River guide Bev Dennis is poling a canoe upstream through "The Falls" of the upper Bois Brule River. There is an armchair style seat in the front of the canoe and a high backed seat behind.
Paddling
October 1938
View across water towards two men in a canoe on the left, and a man and woman in a duckboat on the right paddling down the Clam River. Trees and shrubs cover the riverbank. There are large cumulus ...
Golf with a View
1940
View down hill towards a man and a woman posing in the act of putting on a green of the golf course in Peninsula State Park. Eagle Harbor and the village of Ephraim are in the background across the...
