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Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
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Three Men in Cook Shanty

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Description: Interior of cook shanty, with oil lamps hanging from the ceiling beams. The back wall is covered with newspapers. Three men stand behind wood benches and t...
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Lumber Camp Fiddler and Jig Dancer

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Description: Two men in a lumber camp bunkhouse. The man on the right is sitting on a stump playing a fiddle, while the man on the left is dancing.
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Men Playing Cards in Shanty

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Description: A large group of men, probably logging workers, are shown playing cards in a sleeping shanty.
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Chautauqua Grounds

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Chautauqua Grounds, founded in 1874. A log cottage stands on the left, and another wooden cottage can be seen on the right. Caption reads: "Cot...
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Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
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Cherry Camp

Date: 1922
Description: The Hotz Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp house with a low dormer in front; all windows and the porch are shuttered. There is a car parked in front of a log c...
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Entrance to Cherry Camp

Date: 05 27 1919
Description: Cherry trees in full bloom frame the entrance to the cherry camp buildings, which include a wood frame camp house with shuttered porch and windows on the l...
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Cherry Camp

Date: 05 27 1919
Description: Looking southeast from behind the camp house, right, and log cabin, left, at the Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp. All the windows on the cottage are boarded ...
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025 - Adirondack Lean-To with Campers

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Description: Exterior view of Adirondack Lean-to with several campers gathered around the stone fireplace. Some of the campers are holding or carrying an axe, a pocket ...

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