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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from street of a two-story "boomtown" style building which was the residence of Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, Town of W... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Students work at their desks in the Mayo School, District No. 1. A row of books forms the foreground; history lessons from the time of reconstruction after... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Joe Mietus, 16, poses at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Has invented several home made farm tools. Also has... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Gene Mayo, 14, poses in front of double doors holding his cap. He is a student at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is writ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pictured in a heart-shaped frame is a story and one-half house with vertical log siding on the lower floor with a stand of large pine trees in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Tom Simoc, 14, poses with a Guernsey cow near a log barn. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Won prizes at Co. Fair, 1930." Tom was the son of N... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Seven pupils graduating from the Mayo School, District No. 1, posing sitting in a row in their classroom. The room has been decorated with flowers, crepe p... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Students of the Mayo School, District No. 1, have gathered with their families for a picnic at a grove on the Deerskin River. Automobiles are parked under ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view downhill towards an intersection in the north woods. Three cars are driving away up the hill on the other side of the intersecti... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Picnic party on the rocks along the shore, among the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 11 28 1935 |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving dinner menu from the Civilian Conservation Corps, 641st Company, at Camp Nine Mile, with a profile view of a turkey. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate... |
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| Description: | View of front of vertical log barn. Probably built in the late 19th century. It has a louvered cupola or ventilator, T-crossed barn doors and three glass w... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards the new boat house constructed of Norway pine logs at Trout Lake. It is part of the forest ranger complex. Caption reads: "Boa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across water of the east shore of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "East Shore. Trout Lake, Vilas Co. Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Trout Lake Forest Headquarters, the deer corral, with four fawns. Three of the fawns are eating from a trough, the third from a pail held by a man (partial... |
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