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bears |
Number of Object records |
0 |
Number of Photo records |
8 |
Number of Archive records |
7 |
Number of Library records |
1 |
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Archery bear hunters at the MW dump get caught for illegal hunting by resourceful wardens. 1960 - The unsportsman like, though popular, act of hunting bear at local garbage dumps resulted in Vilas County passing an ordinance making dumps closed areas to hunting.
09/26/1960
Record Type: Archive
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Bears at the Manitowish Waters dump. ca 1950s-1960s - Bear watching at the dump was a summer evening activity.
Record Type: Photo
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Bear viewing at the dump. 1956 - A popular evening pastime when the dump was just an open pit where residents disposed of their garbage.
Record Type: Photo
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Bear watching at the dump. ca 1950s-1960s - Bears looking in a car with people in it.
Record Type: Photo
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Loveless - Bears - 1929 - Loveless Photo collection Two bears in a cage. One is standing on its hind legs. "Dads two bears in June 1929"
Record Type: Photo
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Loveless - Ella & Mother - 1929 - Loveless Photo collection Two women stand in front of a bear skin nailed to an exterior wall. "Mother & me - 1929"
Record Type: Photo
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Manitowish Waters Historical Society newsletters 2022-2023 - Published tri-annually. March 2022 Original resorts June 2022 The Dump and bear watching November 2022 Tradition of Hunting March 2023 Music in the Northwoods June 2023 Islands on the MW Chain November 2023 Honoring our Veterans
MWHS Newsletters
Record Type: Library
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Marty Cain's Resort- Chamber of Commerce ads from 1944-1948. - Marty purchased the resort on Alder Lake and Highway 51 from (C.E. &) Lillian Carlson in 1943.
Record Type: Archive
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Three news clippings about bear watching at the town dump. 1954-1962 - Visitors and residents found entertainment in watching the bears scour the dump for food.
Record Type: Archive
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Virgin Forest Resort Chamber of Commerce ad 1942 - C E and Lillian Carlson owned the resort after the death of Robert Loveless. They owned it only a year or two before selling to Marty Cain in 1943.
1942
Record Type: Archive