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Ole Emerson's Lumber Camp Bunkhouse

Date: 1902
Description: Lumbermen in their bunk house at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. Several of them have pipes in their mouths and their socks are hanging to dry.
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Ole Emerson's Lumber Camp

Date: 1906
Description: Lumber crew posed in front of a building at Ole Emerson's lumber camp.
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Boatyard

Date: 1969
Description: Looking through the ribs of the hull of a boat under construction in a boatyard.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
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Home Port

Date: 1963
Description: Fishing net and boat dock on shoreline.
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South Twin Island Fishing Village

Date: 1915
Description: Building, boats, and fish net drying reels on South Twin Island in the Apostle Islands archipelago.
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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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Blue Moon Tavern

Date: 1935
Description: View across road of automobile parked next to gasoline pump outside of the Blue Moon Tavern on County Highway 24.
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Lumberjacks in the Bunkhouse

Date: 1904
Description: Lumberjacks posing together in a bunkhouse at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. There are lanterns hanging from the ceiling. Two of the men are holding fiddles (v...
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Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent, a one-story log cabin with stone foundation with two doors on the right. There is a water pump outside the c...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County & Part Bayfield County, Wisconsin, Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands Corrected to February 15th

Date: 1900
Description: This 1900 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Map or Atlas

Old Trails and Roads, Bayfield Peninsula, Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: This 1952 map of the northern parts of Bayfield and Douglas counties, Wisconsin, shows points established by E.T. Sweet in 1877, road points confirmed by S...
Map or Atlas

Rust-Owen Lumber Company Land Department : Drummond, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This map, which highlights the land for sale by the Rust-Owen Lumber Company in the towns of Drummond, Cable and Grandview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, sho...
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Port Wing Consolidated School

Date: 1931
Description: Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun...
Postcard

Pine Logs, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: A large open area completely filled with cut pine logs. There is a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Pine Logs, Drummond, Wis."
Postcard

Log Train, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L...
Postcard

Norway Piling, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe...
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Cornucopia Harbor

Date: 06 19 1958
Description: View over water towards storm damage in Cornucopia Harbor. West slip. There is a pile of wood along the shoreline in the foreground, with a boat moored jus...
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Stacked Firewood

Date: 10 1978
Description: A stack of firewood, covered at the top with plastic, is against the exterior wall of a small wood building. In the background is a tree with red leaves in...
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Wisconsin Pioneer

Date: 1978
Description: An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron.

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