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| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Windsled used to transport passengers and goods between Madeline Island and Bayfield. This image was in Ross' book, "La Pointe: Village Outpost". |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled. |
| Date: | 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the enclosed wind sled shaped like the Maybe, sitting on the ice with La Pointe dock on the left. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from the water of the Mission, dock, Mission cottages, and Congregational Church on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of La Pointe and the shoreline from the Old Mission dock. Two boys and two men stand along the shoreline. The white building with the dark ro... |
| Date: | 05 16 1973 |
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| Description: | View of the ferry "Gar-How" taken from on board the ferry "Island Queen" while both were docked at Madeline Island. The "Gar-How" was named after Howard Ru... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of La Pointe dock taken from the water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Looking down La Pointe's main street on Madeline Island. A man is walking on the board sidewalk on the left, and another person is driving a horse-drawn ve... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe, Madeline Island, taken from the Mission Inn. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house of Captain Angus on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island sometime around 1900. The Angus family came to Madeline Island in ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Dirt trail passing log shack that was probably the home of Michael and Madeline Cadotte. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Log-constructed gazebo and person on bridge in rose garden. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Hull family boat "Zenya" near shore with boat "Skater" in the background off shore. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary Baldwin (Duluth), John Neimeyer (Duluth), and the bow of the "Zenya." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe. |
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| Description: | Dog sled loaded with luggage. Identified from left: first two unidentified; Mary Louise O'Brien Eldridge; Richard Eldridge; Margaret Russell; Gram Johnson ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Boardwalk leading to St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe. |
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