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Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Postcard

The Lakewoods Family Resort

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of an aerial view of the Lakewoods Family Resort on Lake Namekagon. All modern housekeeping cottages with an indoor heated swimming pool.
Postcard

Vacation Paradise

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of a view of a lake from a shoreline. A power boat and a fishing boat can be seen through the trees. "Cable, Wisc." is printed in red on the...
Photograph

Boats on the Shore of Lake Wilipyro

Date: 1931
Description: Two metal rowboats are pulled up on the shoreline of Lake Wilipyro. The lake and trees on the opposite shore are visible in the background. A small animal...
Photograph

Cooper Cottage on Cable Lake

Date: 1931
Description: View across water of people standing on the shoreline and a dock. Two people are in a boat on the lake. Cooper Cottage is visible on land and another dock ...
Photograph

Wooden Boats on Shore and Log Cabin

Date: 1938
Description: View from shoreline of two wooden boats tied up on the shoreline of Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages on Lake Namakagon. On shore is a log cabin, a log...
Photograph

Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottage's on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1934
Description: View from water towards shoreline of two boats at Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages on Lake Namakagon tied up in front of two log cabins. A deer (not kn...
Map or Atlas

Cable Area Recreation Map: Cable, Clam Lake, Drummond, Grand View, Namakagon

Date: 1990
Description: This map shows various types of trails, boat landings, canoe areas, public beaches, picnic areas, campgrounds, golf courses, public tennis courts, and othe...
Photograph

Boathouse Elevator at Forest Lodge

Date: 1997
Description: A vertical-log elevator shaft at one end of a vertical-log two-story boathouse; there is a door at the base of the elevator. Wood steps with a pipe railing...
Photograph

Boathouse with Elevator and Flying an American Flag

Date: 10 1960
Description: A two-story, vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagon. The second floor has a wrap-around deck, and both floors have windows with green striped awnings. A ...
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1957
Description: Large two-story vertical log boathouse with an elevator shaft, located on Lake Namakagon. A small sailboat is tied to the boathouse dock.

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