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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from the water of the Mission, dock, Mission cottages, and Congregational Church on Madeline Island. |
| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Inside of Tuesday luncheon menu for the "South American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Boulev... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fountain City with the Mississippi River in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Genoa. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View, Genoa, Wis." The St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is in the right foreground. Railroad tracks ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ferryboat landing, with the boats providing service between Gills Rock and Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The American Fur Company warehouse, also called Old Treaty Hall. In 1832 the fur company moved its Bayfield post to the Island (Madeline Island), and on th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Washington Island, including field and fence, with buildings, automobiles, and a large ship in the distance. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | School and war memorial on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | One of the four harbors on Washington Island. There is a man on a pier or dock in the foreground, and a boat approaching on the left. A tree-lined shorelin... |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thorstein Veblen's camp, consisting of a building and a tent. Probably on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thorstein Veblen sitting on a beach, probably at Washington Island, surrounded by driftwood. There is a young child on the beach on the right. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards people near two buildings on a shoreline. Boats are out in the water. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A grassy hummock stands out on the beach at Gravelly Island. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| 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... |
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