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Bear Cubs at the Corner Bar

Date: 07 21
Description: Photographic postcard of two bear cubs at the Corner Bar. They are hanging out of a cardboard Blatz Beer box. The caption reads: "A Shot & a Beer & a Gin f...
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Crawford Livingston, Jr.

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Crawford Livingston Jr., a railroad man who lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. Crawford Livingston purchased the land and built...
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Guest Bedroom at Forest Lodge

Date: 1999
Description: Pink ruffled canopied wooden bed with salmon pink quilt and a suitcase stand at the foot of the bed. There is a corner cabinet with glassware and a bedside...
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Porcelain Dishes on Side-board at Forest Lodge

Date: 
Description: Blue and white porcelain dishes, vases, figurines and lamps on a wooden side-board set against a chinked log wall. Windows with blue and white curtains top...
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After Dinner Entertainment

Date: 1978
Description: Two women and a man are performing a skit in front of the brick fireplace in the living room at Forest Lodge. One woman is holding a paper fan and wearing...
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Mary Griggs Baby Portrait

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of Mary Griggs, daughter of Mary Steele Livingston Griggs and Theodore Wright Griggs.
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Dining Room in the Main Lodge at Forest Lodge

Date: 1996
Description: The dining room in the main lodge, with chinked log walls, wood ceiling beams, two curtained windows and a curtained doorway leading to the living room. In...
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Great Room in Guest House at Forest Lodge

Date: 199
Description: A large two-story wood paneled room with large casement windows and a fireplace that has a painting of a ship at sea hung above it. The well-furnished roo...
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Great Room in Guest Houst at Forest Lodge

Date: 1996
Description: A wood paneled two-story room with log support beams, a chandelier, two large casement windows, a nearly two story triple sash window at the end of the roo...
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Boathouse Second Floor Interior

Date: 1997
Description: The interior of the Forest Lodge boathouse on Lake Namakagon. The walls are lined with reed-type fiber and the floor is hardwood. Three-sides of the second...
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Dining Room in Main Lodge

Date: 1961
Description: A wood dining room table with a flower bouquet is surrounded by wooden Windsor chairs in a chinked log room with a log beam ceiling. Royal Copenhagen blue ...
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Main Lodge Living Room

Date: 1961
Description: A white chinked horizontal-log walls and plank-wood ceiling room that has a large brick fireplace with a deer mount near the top, a long-rifle in the cente...
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Main Lodge Living Room

Date: 1961
Description: White-chinked horizontal log walls in living room looking into the dining room. An animal hide is hanging on wall and bull horns are mounted over the curta...
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Guest House Great Room

Date: 1961
Description: A light colored wood-sided, very tall room with wood support beams. A very tall window with curtains dominates an end wall, and the other wall has large sa...
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Guest House Great Room

Date: 1961
Description: A tall, light-colored wood paneled room with exposed pine beams. A built-in fireplace with birch logs is on an end wall below a painting of ships at battle...
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Guest House Antique Secretary Desk

Date: 1961
Description: An ornate secretary writing desk is positioned between two windows in the great room of the guest house. The desk is brown with gold inlays, two bottom dra...
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Main Lodge Dining Room Buffet

Date: 1961
Description: An assortment of Royal Copenhagen blue dishes are arranged on the upper open shelves of an antique wood buffet in the dining room of the main lodge. The co...
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Main Lodge Bedroom

Date: 08 1961
Description: Wood-paneled room with exposed log ceiling joists. One wall of the room has an all wood bookcase full of books, and above are upper doors to cabinets with ...
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Living Room in Main Lodge

Date: 2000
Description: Horizontal white-chinked log walls with two mounted animal skins. A white sofa with red piping and red pillows is positioned in front of a table with a sma...
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Living Room at Main Lodge

Date: 2000
Description: White-chinked log walls with a framed map of Forest Lodge property. Dark wood furniture including a rocking chair, bench, side table, and an upholstered ch...

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