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Rest Lake Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Rest Lake Dam of Manitowish River, Manitowish. Photograph taken from Vance Lake Highway (old Highway 51, now Highway W).
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Voss' Birchwood Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: View of a two-story gabled roof lodge, Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake. It has a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front porch and is su...
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Entrance to Voss' Birchwood Lodge

Date: 1933
Description: View of the entrance to Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake. On the right are two birdhouses and a log entrance that says Voss' Resort. On the right is a ...
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Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake

Date: 1934
Description: View looking out over the boats at docks on Spider Lake at Voss' Birchwood Lodge.
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Tower Tea Room

Date: 1938
Description: View down road of an automobile parked outside the two-story Tower Tea Room, Rest Lake. The one-story building on the right has a sign that says "Crank Cas...
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Northern Lakes Hotel

Date: 1931
Description: View across yard of three people standing on the porch of the two-story Northern Lakes Hotel on Rest Lake. There is a stone chimney and brickwork around th...
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Post Office in Manitowish

Date: 1938
Description: Woman standing outside of the two-story Post Office building in Manitowish. There is a road, fence and pine trees in the foreground.
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"Pere Marquette"

Date: 1960
Description: The "Pere Marquette" cargo boat, enroute from Manitowoc to Luddington.
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Man with Fish at Voss' Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man wearing boots, a jacket and hat holding a large fish next to a building and sign that says "Voss Birchwood Lodge, Strictly Modern...
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Man with Fish at Voss' Birchwood Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man wearing boots, a sweater and hat holding a large fish and standing next to a building and a sign that says "Voss Birchwood Lodge,...
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Sawmill

Date: 08 1937
Description: Lumber is stacked in three large piles behind a small wooden shed. There is machinery in front of the shed on the right, and what appears to be a saw pit o...
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Camping Trailers

Date: 08 1937
Description: Camping trailers and automobiles are parked in a wooded area. Several trailers have awnings over the windows. The caption on the negative envelope reads" "...
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Tea Room Cottage

Date: 08 1937
Description: A small vertical log cabin is adorned with canvas awnings over window boxes and patterned shingle roof. There is a chimney at the rear, and the front doubl...
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Making Twine

Date: 1909
Description: Stereograph of three Native American men and a child, outdoors, in front of a wigwam. On the ground is a basket of materials. The man on the left is standi...
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Manitowish Depot

Date: 1930
Description: Herbert E. Brumder standing near a suitcase, large bag and other parcels resting on the ground at the small Chicago Northwestern Railroad depot at Manitowi...
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Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: A man standing in a small boat controls a trolling motor with a rope as he leads a flotilla of canoes. There is a densely wooded shoreline in the backgroun...
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Boating

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of a man smoking a cigarette sitting in the bow of a motor propelled wooden boat waving a greeting toward the photographer. There are four ot...
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Chinking

Date: 1935
Description: A well-dressed man sitting on a boulder at right is watching two other men repair the chinking on a log cabin. Tar paper roofing has been applied over the ...
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Log Cabin

Date: 1935
Description: Smoke is rising from the flue of a small log cabin in a clearing. There are tree stumps in the foreground.
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Catch of the Day

Date: 1935
Description: Philip, left, and Herbert E. Brumder posing behind dozens of fish of several species which have been nailed to saplings suspended between trees.

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