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Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
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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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Mrs. T.W. Griggs Lounging with Friends

Date: 07 1955
Description: Mrs. T.W. Griggs lounging between two friends in wicker lawn chairs in front of Forest Lodge. One chair is a semi-circular rocking chair.
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Mary Griggs with Two Friends

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs at Forest Lodge, sitting on wooden bench in front of flower garden with her pet dachshund and a male friend. Mary is wearing a dress with a car...
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Playing Badminton at Forest Lodge

Date: 1972
Description: Two mixed-couples playing badminton on clay court at edge of evergreen forest. The two men and one woman are wearing Bermuda-style shorts.
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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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Profile of Mary Griggs Wearing a Kerchief

Date: 1948
Description: Mary Griggs is outdoors wearing a kerchief and coat. Forest Lodge and the grounds are in the background.
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Guest House at Forest Lodge

Date: 1945
Description: Two-story vertical log structure with cedar shake roof and a boarded over screen porch. The building is located in a woodland and lawn setting on the groun...
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Forest Lodge Guest House from Main Lodge

Date: 1943
Description: Front corner of the Main Lodge is in the left foreground with the Guest House in the background. The main lodge is built with horizontal logs. The guest ho...
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Happy Birthday Bertha

Date: 08 08 1977
Description: Mary Griggs Burke dressed in a white fringe dress while twirling in a clearing in the woods at Forest Lodge. The photograph was a gift from Mary's cousin E...
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Mary, Polly, Jane, and Al

Date: 1932
Description: Three women, and one man wearing numerous hats, are standing on a lawn at Forest Lodge in front of a flower garden with woods in the background. The woman ...
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Mary Griggs (Burke) on Boathouse

Date: 1932
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is leaning against a pipe railing on the corner of the second story of the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wide-legged jumpsu...
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Mary Livingston Griggs on Snowy Boardwalk

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing on the birch-lined boardwalk leading to the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wool dress, coat and leather boots...
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Mary Griggs (Burke) Ascending Boathouse Deck

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is wearing a one-piece bathing suit as she climbs out of Lake Namakagon onto the Forest Lodge boathouse deck while her dachshund awaits...
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Mary Griggs holding a beverage in canoe

Date: 1949
Description: Mary is wearing belted shorts and a short sleeve blouse while sitting sideways in a wood-strip and canvas canoe that is at rest near the shoreline on Lake ...
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Theodore W. Griggs and Daughter Mary

Date: 1935
Description: Mary Griggs and her father Theodore W. Griggs are standing next to a four-door automobile parked outside the main lodge at Forest Lodge. Mary's mother, Mar...
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Two Marys on Birch-lined Path

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are standing on a snowy birch-lined boardwalk on the shore of Lake Namakagon at Forest Lodge. Mother Mary is w...
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Mary and friends play Badminton

Date: 1931
Description: On Forest Lodge badminton court, left to right: Al Luideke, George Meine, Mary Griggs, Harriet Thompson, and Mary's father, Theodore Griggs who is addressi...
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Mary Sitting in Front of Canoe

Date: 1947
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke), wearing a patterned short-sleeve blouse, shorts, and a flower in her hair, is sitting in the front of a canoe on the Namakagon River i...
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Main Lodge at Forest Lodge

Date: 1952
Description: The back and side of the main lodge at Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon. The lodge was re-built in 1914-15 and remodeled in 1928-29. It is a single-story hor...

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