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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Picnic on beach of one of the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior. Image includes Mrs. Chute, Mrs. Webb., Mrs. Hull, H.W. Rogers and Mr. Chute. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Women standing at General Fifield's Camp Stella at Sand Island, Apostle Island, Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 08 29 1922 |
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| Description: | Men and boys are on a hand-pump rail cart on a Michigan Island beach, Lake Superior. A young girl is walking on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of Hougton Point and Bayfield from Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting on sandstone on Basswood Island, Apostle Islands. People from l. to r.: E.H., Florence Baker, Dot Ross, Louise Baker, Harie Ross, a... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people on boat "Zenya" at Hermit Island boat landing. L. to r. in back: Captain Angus; Mrs. Stickae; Florence Baker; Mrs. Baker; Elizabeth Abern... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches. |
| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
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| Description: | The stairs and dock at the lighthouse on Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
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| Description: | The entrance to the garden framed by a decorative wooden gate. |
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| Description: | Chester Thordarson stands in his garden with a friend near the fish pond, which has a fountain. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees toward a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rocky Roost, located west of Governor's Island, Lake Mendota. Robert Lamp, in 1902, had his friend Frank Lloyd Wright design a cottage to be called "Rocky ... |
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| Description: | Family on Sea Island that was part of the Citizenship group that took place on the island. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Shoreline of Lake Michigan. This is mainly a commercial fishing community, and some of the Lake Michigan ferry boats dock here. A pole with a lifesaving ri... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Man inspecting fish hung up to dry in a yard on Jones Island. |
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