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Aerial View of Cable

Date: 1936
Description: Aerial view of Cable, in northern Wisconsin. Text at foot reads: "Airplane View of Cable, Wis. 244."
Photograph

Lee Cottage

Date: 1936
Description: View down hill of two-story house on the shore of Cable Lake.
Postcard

Chalet at Mt. Telemark

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of the Chalet at Mt. Telemark. Skiers and skis are in front of the Chalet.
Postcard

Aerial View of Lake Owen

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of an aerial view of Lake Owen near Cable. Most of the lake is located within the Chequamegon National Forest. Caption reads: "Air Vi...
Postcard

Chalet at Mt. Telemark

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of an elevated view of the Chalet at Mt. Telemark and surrounding area, and many skiers and several ski lifts.
Photograph

Dog in Front of Log Cabin

Date: 1934
Description: A dog stands in front of a single-story log cabin with a screened front porch. The cabin is perched on the side of a slope, and the supports can be seen un...
Map or Atlas

Map of Cable

Date: 1971
Description: A topgraphical map of Cable, Wisconsin showing railroads.
Photograph

Child Skiing on Mount Telemark

Date: 1968
Description: A young child, wearing a Scandinavian style hat, coat, and gloves, is wearing a pair of skis and standing on a small hill. Below the hill in the background...
Photograph

Ski Lift

Date: 
Description: View looking up towards a man and a woman just getting off the ski lift at Mt. Telemark Resort. An emergency telephone booth sign is on the booth next to t...
Photograph

Man on Skis Doing Tricks with Ski Poles

Date: 1968
Description: A man wearing skis is jumping off the snow-covered ground and supporting his weight on ski poles.
Photograph

Man on Skis Doing Tricks with Ski Poles

Date: 1968
Description: A man is holding his body off the snow-covered ground, supporting his weight entirely on the tips of his skis and ski poles.
Photograph

Easy Riders

Date: 1962
Description: Skiers ascending Mt. Telemark on a T-Bar ski lift.
Photograph

Mary Griggs (Burke) on Boathouse

Date: 1932
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is leaning against a pipe railing on the corner of the second story of the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wide-legged jumpsu...
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

Two Marys on Birch-lined Path

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are standing on a snowy birch-lined boardwalk on the shore of Lake Namakagon at Forest Lodge. Mother Mary is w...
Photograph

Birch-lined Boardwalk

Date: 1990
Description: A boardwalk that goes thorough the woods from the main lodge at Forest Lodge to the boathouse. The boardwalk is lined with mature birch trees and ferns, a...
Photograph

Birch-lined Path to Lake Namakagon

Date: 2000
Description: Looking downhill on flagstone and wood plank path edged by giant birch trees, as well as grasses and evergreens.
Photograph

Boardwalk and Birch-lined Steps to the Main Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: Boardwalk leading to wood steps lined with young birch trees that leads uphill to the main lodge side door. Grasses, shrubs and evergreen trees grow on eit...
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

Garage and Stable

Date: 1916
Description: Two-story building. The first story is a foundation of stone and the second story is sided with wood. Numerous windows are on both stories, and two dormers...

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