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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Woods' Manor on shores of Madeline Island. The manor was built in 1900 for summer resident Colonel Frederick Woods from Nebraska. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lakeside view of Nebraska Row, showing Treaty Hall, La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Island, possibly during a period of renovation. |
| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
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| Description: | Elevated view through trees up the river towards islands, from the mouth of Witches' Gulch. |
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| Description: | Looking upstream towards Blackhawk Island from opposite Ravine Bridge. There is a rowboat at the rocky shoreline. |
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| Description: | View along sandy shoreline towards Ink Stand and Sugar Bowl, south side. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the pile-pontoon railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. The bridge was built and patented by John Lawler in 187... |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the railroad bridge, with industrial plants on Doty Island. |
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| Description: | Two men posing on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River at Fountain City. Fountain Brewery is visible at bottom right. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Children standing in front of fish nets drying on net reels. |
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