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Drawing

Lake Superior Area

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore.
Photograph

Gaylord Nelson at the Apostle Islands

Date: 1967
Description: Nelson sits in a canoe and looks out over the water around the Apostle Islands.
Photograph

Olson's Grand Portage

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Sigurd Olson, followed by Tony Lovink, at the beginning of their "grand portage." A large lake and islands are in the background.
Postcard

Public Bath

Date: 
Description: A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho...
Photograph

Two Clergymen Fishing on Archibald Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Two clergymen and one boy are sitting in a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. The clergyman on the left is holding a long cane pole. The clergyman ...
Photograph

Robert Thurston Canoeing

Date: 1917
Description: Robert Thurston is canoeing on Archibald Lake amidst some shoreline grasses. The Ark cottage on the Island is in the background on the right.

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