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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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Koerner's Spider Lake Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of a lakeside resort with several buildings. Caption reads: "Koerner's Spider Lake Resort, 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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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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The Rex Bar

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Description: People are sitting on stools along the bar, with bartenders behind serving drinks. Signs above the bar read: "Cocktails" and "Liquors." There is a jukebox ...
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Billy's Rathskeller

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Description: Two men are standing behind a bar. Above the back of the bar are signs that read: "Wines," "Cocktails" and "Liquors." Caption reads: "Billy's Rathskeller, ...
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Billy Goodreau

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Description: Portrait of Billy leaning on the bar. He is wearing a white jacket, and a dark necktie. "Caption reads: "Billy Goodreau, Mercer, Wis."
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Saint Ann's Catholic Church

Date: 1916
Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Saint Ann's Catholic Church, Saxon, Wis." Built in 1909, the church is still serving the needs of the community today. In recent y...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg...

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