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The Court

Date: 1935
Description: View from above of spectators watching men play doubles tennis at a downtown tennis court. There is a water tower in the background.
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Lakewood Country Club

Date: 1935
Description: Winter scene with people sledding, dog sledding, snowshoeing, and preparing for snowshoeing at Lakewood Country Club.
Postcard

Chalet at Mt. Telemark

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of the Chalet at Mt. Telemark. Skiers and skis are in front of the Chalet.
Postcard

Vacation Paradise

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of a view of a lake from a shoreline. A power boat and a fishing boat can be seen through the trees. "Cable, Wisc." is printed in red on the...
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Tourist Park

Date: 1937
Description: Three young children standing outside of a picnic shelter at Tourist Park with a picnic table and automobile.
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Cooper Cottage on Cable Lake

Date: 1931
Description: View across water of people standing on the shoreline and a dock. Two people are in a boat on the lake. Cooper Cottage is visible on land and another dock ...
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W.A. Dennis Point Cottage

Date: 1932
Description: View across water of four people in a canoe on Cable Lake, with the W.A. Dennis Point Cottage and pine trees visible on the opposite shoreline.
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Lakewoods Resort Diving Platform on Namakagon Lake

Date: 1931
Description: View across water of men and children swimming around and diving off of a diving platform at Lakewoods Resort on Namakagon Lake. In the distance is the far...
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Child Skiing on Mount Telemark

Date: 1968
Description: A young child, wearing a Scandinavian style hat, coat, and gloves, is wearing a pair of skis and standing on a small hill. Below the hill in the background...
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Man on Skis Doing Tricks with Ski Poles

Date: 1968
Description: A man wearing skis is jumping off the snow-covered ground and supporting his weight on ski poles.
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Man on Skis Doing Tricks with Ski Poles

Date: 1968
Description: A man is holding his body off the snow-covered ground, supporting his weight entirely on the tips of his skis and ski poles.
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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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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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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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Mary Griggs and Theodore W. Griggs

Date: 1928
Description: Theodore Wright Griggs and his daughter Mary are standing on rocky ground with woods in the background. Mary is wearing a shirt, knickers, knee-socks and s...
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Mary Livingston Griggs by the Tennis Court

Date: 1956
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan...
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Mary Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous...
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Mary Livingston Griggs Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1954
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is sitting in the bow of a canoe as a young male companion paddles them on the Namakagon River. Mary is wearing a white blouse and h...
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Mary Swinging at Her Playhouse

Date: 1925
Description: Mary Griggs is sitting on a swing in the lawn near her playhouse. Mary's nurse/nanny is relaxing on a bench against the outside of the playhouse. The playh...

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