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Photograph

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.
Photograph

Wooden Boats on Shore and Log Cabin

Date: 1938
Description: View from shoreline of two wooden boats tied up on the shoreline of Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages on Lake Namakagon. On shore is a log cabin, a log...
Photograph

Airplane View of Cable

Date: 1932
Description: Aerial view of town.
Photograph

The Bobynn Gateway, Lake Namakagon

Date: 1932
Description: View of Gateway to Bobynn on Lake Namakagon, labeled as Cable and Grand View, Wisconsin. In front is a dirt road with two signs that read "The Bobynn." Beh...
Photograph

Community Building

Date: 1930
Description: View from the dirt road of front of a one-story log building with a brick chimney. In the foreground are a chain link fence, gate, and shrubs. This buildin...
Photograph

Lakewoods Country Club

Date: 1933
Description: View looking down tree-lined road and birch log fence. The road is along a shoreline and leads to the Lakewoods Country Club. Three buildings are along a l...
Photograph

Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottage's on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1934
Description: View from water towards shoreline of two boats at Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages on Lake Namakagon tied up in front of two log cabins. A deer (not kn...
Map or Atlas

Map of Cable

Date: 1971
Description: A topgraphical map of Cable, Wisconsin showing railroads.
Photograph

Snow Scene Near Evergreen Store

Date: 1935
Description: Winter scene with a V-blade snowplow from the front plowing snow from a road. The snow is billowing to the left side of the road in a large arc. Trees are...
Map or Atlas

Cable Area Recreation Map: Cable, Clam Lake, Drummond, Grand View, Namakagon

Date: 1990
Description: This map shows various types of trails, boat landings, canoe areas, public beaches, picnic areas, campgrounds, golf courses, public tennis courts, and othe...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Mary Griggs (Burke) Standing on Garmisch Road

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is standing at the edge of Garmisch Road (formerly County Highway D) with her left foot on a small amount of leaf strewn snow. She is w...
Photograph

Two Mary's Boarding a Train

Date: 1925
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs, her daughter Mary, and two unidentified women are preparing to board a train car. Young Mary is in the open train door, wearing a ...
Photograph

Birch-lined Boardwalk

Date: 1990
Description: A boardwalk that goes thorough the woods from the main lodge at Forest Lodge to the boathouse. The boardwalk is lined with mature birch trees and ferns, a...
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
Photograph

Boathouse Elevator at Forest Lodge

Date: 1997
Description: A vertical-log elevator shaft at one end of a vertical-log two-story boathouse; there is a door at the base of the elevator. Wood steps with a pipe railing...
Drawing

Men's Quarters, Garage, and Stable

Date: 1924
Description: Architectural drawing of what became known as The Cow Palace at Forest Lodge.

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