AA-2026-A66CAB
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Two people stand on a frozen lake in the 1950s, engaged in what was then an ordinary winter activity: ice fishing. The man wears a baseball cap and dark jacket; the younger person beside him holds what appears to be a fishing line or rod. Behind them, other figures are scattered across the ice, each one a separate expedition into the same frozen surface, because this is how people spent winter weekends when there was nothing else to do and the ice was thick enough to trust. The lake bed is visible through the transparent ice—a clarity that required no climate to convince anyone it was safe. Nobody had yet learned to worry about what was happening to winters.
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Ice Fishing on a Frozen Midwest Lake, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-A66CAB. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/ice-fishing-on-a-frozen-midwest-lake-1950s.
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title = {Ice Fishing on a Frozen Midwest Lake, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-A66CAB},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/ice-fishing-on-a-frozen-midwest-lake-1950s}
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