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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved road towards a four-story mill. Two boys pose on the side of the road. |
| 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: | 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of garden plots at the state nursery at Trout Lake. Young pines must be grown for two years in the nursery before being planted. In this phot... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progres... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery. |
| 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: | The Gang's bivouac camp near French Lake on the edge of the forest. |
| 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 boys gathering wild blueberries in the woods. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Two Canadian Rangers eating a meal by the campfire at their camp on Eden Island by Quetico 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The ruins of an abandoned log house. The roof has fallen in. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Indian women paddle their canoes on Rainy Lake. Other people and dogs are on the shore. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of central Long Lake and a row of unidentified businesses. Caption reads: "Birdseye View of Long Lake, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down trail towards a small group of women and girls hiking in Cathedral Woods on a sunny day. The old growth forest is made up of pines and hemlocks. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down the first part of the path to Cathedral Woods from Barn Pond. The logs laid lengthwise and crosswise help one across the bog into the forest prop... |
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