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Boating on the Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Woman at the tiller of a motorboat with tree-lined shore in the background. She is wearing a captain's hat at a jaunty angle and a sailor middy blouse.
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
Postcard

Main Lodge at Old Mission Inn

Date: 1937
Description: Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965.
Photograph

Copper Falls

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of the waterfall where the Bad River tumbles over the Keweenawan Trap Ledge.
Photograph

Lighthouse

Date: 1937
Description: Lighthouse built by State Senator William Bray of Oshkosh, on a point where the Fox River empties into Lake Winnebago.
Postcard

Railroad Tracks near Milwaukee Bay

Date: 1937
Description: View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ...
Map or Atlas

Official Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1937
Description: Official state highway map, with insets of cities.
Photograph

Diver and Crew

Date: 1937
Description: Three men on pilings posing with man in a diving suit in preparation for a dive. Onlookers are standing above on a bridge in the background.
Photograph

Man in Diving Suit

Date: 1937
Description: Man in diving suit being helped out of the water by three men in a rowboat.
Photograph

A Rocky Coastline Toward The Sea

Date: 1937
Description: View looking from the rocky coastline toward a sailboat at sea.
Photograph

One of Jules Lake Chippewa Lodge Cabins

Date: 1937
Description: Log cabin on cleared land near Lake Chippewa. Nearby there is an arched log bridge over a dry gully.
Photograph

Big Eau Claire Lake from Taylor's Cabins

Date: 1937
Description: Canoes and lawn chairs at the shore of Upper Eau Claire Lake. Caption reads: "Big Eau Claire Lake From Taylors Cabins, Drummond, Wis."
Photograph

Briar Cliff on Diamond Lake

Date: 1937
Description: House, garage, and cottage on shoreline of Diamond Lake.
Photograph

Trapper's Lake Tavern

Date: 1937
Description: Gas pump and automobile next to a tavern on county Road D near Clam Lake.
Photograph

C.D. O'Brien Summer Home

Date: 1937
Description: Two-story house with an enclosed front porch, built in 1929 on the northwest shore of Madeline Island.
Photograph

Aerial View of Nebraska Row

Date: 1937
Description: Aerial view of Nebraska Row on the lakeshore of the west side of La Pointe, showing houses, roads and piers. Nebraska Row was started in 1899 when summer r...
Photograph

Nebraska Row Summer Homes

Date: 1937
Description: View from lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Frank Woods Summer Home

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of a woman standing on lawn of the Woods mansion on Nebraska Row. Bayfield is visible on the opposite mainland shore of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Whip-Poor-Will Camp

Date: 1937
Description: View from water of cabins and boats near shoreline of inland lake.
Photograph

Whip-Poor-Will Camp

Date: 1937
Description: Cedar shake and log cabin near lakeshore with boats. There is a man in a motorboat along the shore.

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