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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people on board the steamboat "Byng I" sometime prior to 1930. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a man sitting on the steps of Town Hall. The Catholic church is in the background. Caption reads: "Town Hall and Church, La P... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from water of cottages along the shoreline in Nebraska Row, La Pointe, Madeline Island. Caption reads: "Nebraska Row — La Pointe, Wis." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Father Gumbly and Sisters, with three Native Americans in ceremonial dress, standing outdoors in front of altar. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Mission Dock with a large white building behind it. It is not the Old Mission House, as sometimes believed to be, and the term "Mission Dock" may not e... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of Mrs. Harford sitting in pumpkin and corn in her garden on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Large group of fishermen standing on ice with catch of fish displayed on airplane wing near La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Ojibwe wooden burial houses surrounded by wooden fence on Madeline Island. Two women stand in the background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Wooden burial house, plots and crosses surrounded by wooden fence on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from road of Cottage Grocery store on Main Street on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two-story wood house with stone porch on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Large vacation homes in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Bayfield is in the background on the far shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two-story cedar shake-sided house with two porches. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | In-ground swimming pool behind large two-story cedar shake-sided house on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | White stucco house with wooden addition next to Lake Superior on Madeline Island. At the time of the photograph this was the oldest house on Madeline Islan... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Bavarian style cedar shake-sided summer home built in 1916 on Nebraska Row on Madeline Island. W.H. Ferguson was from Beatrice, Nebraska and was co-founder... |
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