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Dawson Trail Pine

Date: 1911
Description: View from shoreline towards a tall, lone pine tree further up the shoreline, which marks the Dawson Trail.
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Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of the dilapidated, abandoned Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store near Sturgeon Lake.
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Mac Laren Family Indian Grave

Date: 1911
Description: A dilapidated grave near Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store and Sturgeon Lake. The coffin is covered with birch bark.
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The Dawson Dam

Date: 1911
Description: A view of Dawson Dam from below Tanner Lake.
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Inscriptions On Bark

Date: 1911
Description: Inscriptions or drawings on bark (which is possibly birch bark).
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Medicine Man Cache

Date: 1911
Description: A forgotten Indian cache in poor condition assembled by a Medicine Man. The contents include a green skull cap with a fur band, a tool for scraping hair fr...
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Namakan River

Date: 1911
Description: A view up the Namakan River towards rapids.
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Namakan Rapids

Date: 1911
Description: Rapids on the Namakan River, featuring an apron of smooth water and a rocky shoreline on the opposite side.
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Indian Graves

Date: 1911
Description: Two graves built side by side within a birch branch enclosure. Each grave has an individual wooden fence around it.
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Kettle Falls

Date: 1911
Description: "Old Bill," a Native American, is carrying a basket or box outdoors in Kettle Falls. There is a large wooden building behind him.
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Trapper's Camp

Date: 1909
Description: A view of a trapper's rustic lean-to in the woods.
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Garage and Stable

Date: 1916
Description: Two-story building. The first story is a foundation of stone and the second story is sided with wood. Numerous windows are on both stories, and two dormers...
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Forest Lodge Garage

Date: 1916
Description: Four-stall two-story wood garage with four pairs of folding doors, each door with a six pane window; two doors are folded open. The roof has two dormers an...
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Cove Logging Camp on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1900
Description: Cove Logging camp at future site of Forest Lodge property. The log building on the hill became the main house at Forest Lodge in 1902 when Crawford Livings...
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Log Cabin at Cove Logging Camp

Date: 1900
Description: One-story long horizontal log building with one chimney. Four men are on a wood porch on the right, and one man is standing in the lawn holding a watering ...
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Seven Men Lounging in front of Log Cabin

Date: 1902
Description: Crawford Livingston, wearing white shirt with a straw boater hat laying on the ground in front of him, and six friends are in various longing positions in ...
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View Folder of Postcards

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Indians of Wisconsin Dells. The Sentinel." The mailing side of a souvenir view folder containing eight accordion folded, double-sided color im...

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