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Jacob Johnson & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Jacob Johnson & Company of Bayfield, Wisconsin, a wholesale dealer in fresh and saltwater Lake Superior Fish. Features a cartoon of a man wea...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Hunting & Fishing Paradise

Date: 1935
Description: This pictorial map of northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the Chequamegon National Forest, the Red Cliff Indian Reservation, highways and roads, and...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Top o' Wisconsin

Date: 1967
Description: This tourist brochure for Bayfield County, Wisconsin, from 1967 includes a map of the county showing towns, cities and villages, highways and roads, railro...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Southern Part of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This manuscript map of southern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, covers the towns of Cable and Drummond and portions of Grandview and Namekagon. Shown are the t...
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs on Snowy Boardwalk

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing on the birch-lined boardwalk leading to the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wool dress, coat and leather boots...
Photograph

Mary Griggs (Burke) Ascending Boathouse Deck

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is wearing a one-piece bathing suit as she climbs out of Lake Namakagon onto the Forest Lodge boathouse deck while her dachshund awaits...
Photograph

Mary Griggs holding a beverage in canoe

Date: 1949
Description: Mary is wearing belted shorts and a short sleeve blouse while sitting sideways in a wood-strip and canvas canoe that is at rest near the shoreline on Lake ...
Photograph

Brown Swiss Cows in Cow Pasture

Date: 1959
Description: Close-up of three Brown Swiss cows at the split-rail fence in the Forest Lodge pasture. Lake Namakagon is in the background.
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
Photograph

Boathouse Elevator at Forest Lodge

Date: 1997
Description: A vertical-log elevator shaft at one end of a vertical-log two-story boathouse; there is a door at the base of the elevator. Wood steps with a pipe railing...
Drawing

Sketch of Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1939
Description: Pencil sketch of the Forest Lodge boathouse on Lake Namakagon. Sketch is signed "Lundir '39".
Photograph

Aerial View of Forest Lodge Grounds

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of the cow palace and pasture, the boathouse, and the Lake Namakagon shoreline. The main lodge is barely visible among trees. Old highway count...
Photograph

Mary Griggs and Dairyman with Brown Swiss Calves

Date: 1957
Description: Mary Griggs dressed in a Swedish costume and the dairyman holding two Brown Swiss calves in the pasture near the shore of Lake Namakagon. The calves have f...
Photograph

Boathouse Without Elevator

Date: 1950
Description: Vertical log two-story boathouse on Lake Namakagon, seen through trees from the lawn. The boathouse upper level has an outside deck, and both levels have n...
Photograph

Cutting Ice on Namakagon Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of three men cutting and loading ice into a dump truck on Namakagon Lake. One man is guiding ice blocks through open water to a conv...
Photograph

Boathouse with Three Canoes

Date: 1978
Description: Two-story vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagan. Two canoes are on the boathouse deck and a red canoe is in the lake tied to the deck. Both floors of th...
Photograph

Mary Burke preparing to toss bowling ball on grass bowling green

Date: 1993
Description: Mary Burke is standing on the grass bowling green, preparing to toss a black ball down the pitch during the 100th anniversary celebration for Forest Lodge...
Photograph

Cow Pasture Lane

Date: 10 1951
Description: Narrow curved dirt lane passing by fenced cow pasture. Lake Namakagon is seen through autumn birch trees; two automobiles are parked on the grass under the...
Photograph

Mary Canoeing with Dachshund

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs [Burke] canoeing in a cedar strip canoe on Lake Namakagon with her pet dachshund and a friend. Mary is wearing a floral sundress.
Photograph

Scanning Bowling Green

Date: 1957
Description: Two couples standing at one end of the bowling green on the shore of Namakagon Lake, searching down the field. One woman is wearing a yellow-checked skirt...

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