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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The corner of unpaved Main Street and Tayco Street looking south towards Doty Island. The slanting timbers controlled the primitive draw bridge across the ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1888 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the George A. Whiting Paper Mill after a fire on August 24, 1888. Sixteen men were killed by the explosion of a bleacher; the ble... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View down hill of log cabins on shore of Spider Lake. A dog is laying on a path near two lawn swings, and a man is leaning against a tree stump, gazing at ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View from water of Devil's Island lighthouse located above sandstone caves and arches in the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior. Caption reads: "Devil's Isla... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dredging Lakewood Bay to fill the lots for sale in Lakewood. The men are sitting side-by-side on the drainpipe with their bare feet in the water. There is ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | From L-R: Howard T. Greene, Bill Marr, and Doc Copeland holding a blanket over a campfire to dry it. The shoreline is on the right. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view from the water of the French River and the tree-lined shorelines. There is a man in a canoe further down the river on the right. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view across Pickerel Lake of The Gang's camp on an island. There is a tent set up and smoke is wafting up from a campfire. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The Gang at their camp in a shady spot by Burntside Lake. The canoes are in the water on the left. |
| Date: | 08 1911 |
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| Description: | The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the bridge and dam on the Old Dawson Trail at the end of Sturgeon Lake. The dam was built in 1873 by Simon Dawson. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Gang standing in front of G. Swenson's Store in Kettle Falls, which is partially on the water. The steamer schedule is handwr... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a souvenir folder of Superior. Caption on front reads: "Largest Iron Ore and Coal Docks in the World." A ship named "Ashcroft" is depicted l... |
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