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Holiday Inn

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Description: Five views from the Holiday Inn. Includes the Holiday Inn sign, interior view of the lobby, pool, restaurant and a guest room. Caption reads: "Holiday Inn,...
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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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Fire Fighting

Date: 1936
Description: Three men, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, fighting a forest fire. Two of the men have shovels; the third is directing a stream of water from a...
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Water Shortage

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Description: Two men are working a pump from a truck to a house.
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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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Parade

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a parade marching through town. Many of the participants are wearing uniforms, and some are carrying musical instruments...
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Dining Room at Voss Birchwood Lodge

Date: 1938
Description: Interior view of the restaurant's dining room. Caption reads: "Dining Room at Voss Birchwood Lodge, Manitowish, Wisconsin."
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Voss' Birchwood Lodge

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Description: View down sidewalk towards cottages at a northwoods lodge. Caption reads: "Voss' Birchwood Lodge, Manitowish, Wis."
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Lance's 'Sylvan Lodge'

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Description: View of a resort cottage. The cottage has two doors on the left side, and two doors on the front. Caption reads: "Lance's 'Sylvan Lodge,' Manitowish, Wis."
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View of Long Lake

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Description: Elevated view of Long Lake with two small islands. A building is on the far shoreline. Caption reads: "View of Long Lake, Mercer, Wis."
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Out for a Stroll

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Description: View towards a black bear walking up a road. Text reads: "Out for a Stroll, Greetings from Mercer, Wisconsin."
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The Oasis

Date: 1912
Description: View from water towards a shoreline and a log cabin in the woods by a lake. Rowboats and a small pier are at the shoreline. Caption reads: "The Oasis, Merc...
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Echo Lodge, Echo Lake

Date: 1947
Description: View across lake towards cottages on the shoreline surrounded by pine trees. A rowboat and canoe are on the shore. Caption reads: "Echo Lodge, Echo Lake, M...
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Beaver Lodge

Date: 1953
Description: View towards a man wearing a hat and tall boots who is standing with his hand on a large wheel, perhaps a mill wheel, which is leaning against trees on the...
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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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