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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wooden boats at Raspberry Island (or Devils Island) dock with picnickers on shore. The "Lizzie W' and Nelson Angus, A.G. Hull, Elsie Tough... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women aboard the Hull family boat, the "Lizzie W.," while it is tied to shore at one of the Apostle Islands. |
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| Description: | Devils Island on Lake Superior, outermost of the Apostle Islands group. There appears to be the edge of a boat in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A family kayaks in front of rock walls at the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Building, boats, and fish net drying reels on South Twin Island in the Apostle Islands archipelago. |
| Date: | 08 29 1922 |
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| Description: | Men and boys are on a hand-pump rail cart on a Michigan Island beach, Lake Superior. A young girl is walking on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Group of eight adults getting in or out of a boat on an Apostle Island beach. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people on boat "Zenya" at Hermit Island boat landing. L. to r. in back: Captain Angus; Mrs. Stickae; Florence Baker; Mrs. Baker; Elizabeth Abern... |
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| Description: | Group having a picnic on the shore of an Apostle Island. There is a large sailboat behind the group. |
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| Description: | Man in a rowboat with two women along the shoreline of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Boathouse, dock and boat at Devils Island Light Station. Bill Baker, Elsie Tough, and Captain Angus. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Ladies on the "Gee Whiz" using umbrellas as sun protection. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing on board a passenger ferry bound for a New Year's trip to Ashland. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View across water of the motor yacht "The Nellewood" at dock at Madeline Island on Lake Superior. A group of passengers sit in the bow area. The "Nellewood... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View across water of sandstone cliff shoreline along Lake Superior at the Apostle Islands. On the far right a boat is pulled up onshore, and painted on the... |
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| Description: | Postcard of the excursion boat the "Chippewa" docked in Bayfield, before taking passengers to the Apostle Islands. Two ducks can be seen swimming in the fo... |
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| Description: | Postcard of the "Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post" geological formation on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands. View of the shoreline and a man sitti... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a view of the geologic formation known as the Green Room near the lighthouse on Devil's Island, part of the Apostle Islands. A boat w... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a port hole through the north cape or point of Presque Isle or Stockton Island, part of the Apostle Islands. A person in a boat is ou... |
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