AA-2026-B929F5
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A woman in a cream-colored coat stands on a frozen lake, leaning into the work of pulling a fishing line from a hole in the ice. Her posture is bent, concentrated, the line held in both hands as if whatever hangs below the surface requires all her attention. Behind her, bare birch trees rise through the snow-covered shoreline, and parked cars wait in what appears to be an access area or public fishing ground. Ice fishing in the 1950s was not a sport for the patient or the contemplative — it was a way to get food and a place to be on a winter afternoon when you had nowhere else to go. She has dressed for it, not warmly but adequately, in the manner of someone who expected the cold and came anyway.
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Woman Ice Fishing, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-B929F5. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-ice-fishing-1950s.
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title = {Woman Ice Fishing, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-B929F5},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-ice-fishing-1950s}
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