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Pond at Bracken Brae, Country Home of John Johnston

Date: 1888
Description: Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda...
Postcard

Two Views of the Wisconsin River

Date: 
Description: The top elevated view shows the Wisconsin River with several boats. The bottom view includes the river and the Northwestern Railroad bridge from the shorel...
Photograph

Liberty Camp

Date: 1935
Description: Small shack on shore of Little Spider Lake. Sign over door reads: "The Compleat Angler." There is a shelter made of birch tree trunks that has a birdhouse ...
Photograph

Summer Homes on Nebraska Row

Date: 1937
Description: View from the lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. The water tower and church steeple are visible on the far righ...
Photograph

Woods Manor on Madeline Island

Date: 1938
Description: View of the two-story, wood shingle, lake shore home, Woods Manor, a part of Nebraska Row on Madeline Island. In the foreground is a swimming pool surround...
Photograph

House on Nebraska Row, Madeline Island

Date: 1938
Description: View of a house on Nebraska Row on Madeline Island. In the foreground is a flag pole, bench, path, lawn and trees. On the left are docks from the lake shor...
Painting

Grand Kakalin (Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "At the Grand Kakalin where the river runs almost directly eastward, Brookes and Stevenson paused to paint two scenes. One was a broad landscape showing th...
Photograph

Elevated View of Jackson Lake Shoreline

Date: 
Description: Elevated view overlooking a road leading toward water, a boathouse, cabins, and a lake, most likely Jackson Lake. The shoreline on the far top right is ide...
Photograph

Location of Cottages at Nature Lovers Paradise

Date: 
Description: View of a dirt road, cleared land, Jackson Lake and shoreline. Off to the far right is where the Nature Lovers Paradise resort cottages were located. A sig...
Photograph

Two Men on Shore

Date: 1923
Description: Two men, including Ferdinand L. (Fedy) Hotz, left, stand on the west shore of Spider Island off Door County. There is a small boat with an outboard motor ...
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Rock Island

Date: 1924
Description: Rock Island bluff as seen from the water.
Photograph

Gravelly Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: A grassy hummock stands out on the beach at Gravelly Island.
Photograph

Gravelly Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: Members of the photographer's family shield their heads with their clothing while walking among grassy hummocks on Gravelly Island. There are many seagulls...
Photograph

View of Mackinac Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: View of Mackinac Island from a wooden pier. There are large houses, some with turrets, facing the water.
Photograph

Mackinac Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: View of Mackinac Island from a boat offshore. There are two large wooden piers with warehouses, and a beach on the right. Commercial buildings line the wat...
Photograph

Cabin on the Shore

Date: 1926
Description: View of rustic cabin with a large stone chimney standing by the shore. There is another house or boathouse in the far background near the remains of a pier...
Photograph

Young Aldo Leopold

Date: 1904
Description: A young Aldo Leopold is posing smiling, wearing a jacket and bow tie while sitting on a pier. He is vacationing in the Cheneaux Islands. A shoreline with b...
Photograph

Picking Berries

Date: 1925
Description: Two young men pick berries in a field on a hill near Juddville. Chambers Island is seen on the horizon of the Green Bay.
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Picnic on Concordia Island

Date: 
Description: View of wagons and carriages lined up on a road on Concordia Island for a picnic.
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Fountain on Concordia Island

Date: 06 17 1900
Description: Children and adults standing near a figural fountain on Concordia, later Tovoli, Island.

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