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Lumber Camp Cook Shanty

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Description: Two men preparing a meal in a lumber camp shanty or bunkhouse.
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Stacking Logs

Date: 1914
Description: Using a team of two horses, men stack logs at McCann's lumber camp landing. The camp was in Couderay in Sawyer County on the line of the Chicago, Milwauke...
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Tucker's Rexall Drugstore

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Description: Exterior view of Tucker's Rexall Drugstore. Winter's watertower is in the background.
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Chippewa Girls

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Chippewa (Ojibwa) girls in white western clothing and paper feathered headdresses for a celebration commemorating the return of 80 Native Americ...
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Air View of Lake Chetac

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Description: Aerial view of Lake Chetac near Birchwood.
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Namekagon Portage Historical Marker

Date: 1956
Description: Historical marker of the Namekagon Portage on the Lac Court Oreilles Native American Reservation.
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King House

Date: 1925
Description: King house, owned by Joseph King, on a high bank above the Chippewa River near western end of Dead Lake. According to King, the house was formerly a tavern...
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Hayward Indian School

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Hayward Indian School, including the boys' building, chapel and schoolrooms, and the girls' building.
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Lake Chippewa

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Treeland Pines resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Air View of Bob Cammack's Treeland Pines Resort; Lake Chippewa, Hayward, Wis."
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Lake Chippewa

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa (The Flowage), Hayward, Wis."
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Public School

Date: 1915
Description: Front view of a public grade school. Caption reads: "'Grade School' Hayward, Wis."
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Sawyer County Bank

Date: 1883
Description: View across intersection towards the Sawyer County Bank, with a group of people posed near its corner doorway. The Sawyer County Bank was organized on Marc...
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World War I Soldier

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Description: Gus Sharlow, a Native American Indian World War I soldier from Hayward, Wisconsin.
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Making Maple Sugar

Date: 1919
Description: A child is standing on a log lying on the ground in a clearing. There is a barrel on the left, and a campfire in the background.
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Man Frying Trout

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Description: A man frys a trout in a pan over a campfire.
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Ross' Teal Lake Lodge

Date: 1930
Description: Cars parked at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge.
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Virginia Hess with Muskie

Date: 1950
Description: Virginia Hess posing with a muskellunge near the fish scale at Ross Teal Lake Lodge. Virginia Hess was a member of the Hess Oil Co. family, was from Chicag...
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Elevated View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of town.
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View of the Sawyer business district

Date: 1912
Description: View of the Sawyer business district with a bank visible in the foreground.
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Union Street in Sawyer

Date: 1910
Description: Union Street in Sawyer.

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