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| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Man inspecting fish hung up to dry in a yard on Jones Island. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug... |
| Date: | 08 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Two men construct an addition to Mr. Jack Myers' house on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous man climbs a coconut palm to harvest coconuts on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). His feet are ... |
| Date: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | The faun, standing up on its hind legs, is taking food from a man holding a cooking pot at Peshtigo Brook Farm. In the background is a building with an ope... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Wallace Rumsey is building a wooden seat from a fallen log at Lookout Point on the Island at Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "Building the seat on the point... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are preparing the soil for the new tennis court. The men are using shovels, rakes, and wheelbarrows. On the right, children Alfred and ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Three wood workers are showing the "H" which they made out of birch logs. From left to right: Lucy Holt, Minnie May Rumsey and possibly Juliet Rumsey Stroh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | With shovels in hand, a man, woman, and boy are digging a hole in the ground for a flag pole. One young man is holding the pole in place with two hands. A... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women and two girls are standing together under the trees and looking down into a large bucket. The girl on the left with a bow in her hair may be Jean... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William Pettigrew, who was Foreman at Camp Four for sometime beginning in 1885, is holding a double headed ax in his right hand and a hammer in his left ha... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Three men, and young David Rumsey are standing in the shade by the hollow hemlock log. The man on the right is holding an axe. Part of a series captioned: ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1909 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is watching his children paint the cupola which was moved to the Island from the Lakewood school house. From left to right: Jeannette Holt is pai... |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | View of Henry Rumsey's boat house, which is built of logs. An American flag is flying from the flagpole at the front of the boathouse. |
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