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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Map or Atlas

The City of Chicago

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor.
Photograph

Fish Creek

Date: 08 11 1950
Description: Aerial view of Eagle Harbor.
Photograph

Coastal View

Date: 1930
Description: View along top of rocky cliff toward a home on the right overlooking the ocean, with a large building further down the curving shoreline in the distance.
Photograph

Coastal View of Waves and Rocks

Date: 1925
Description: View along rocky coastline with crashing waves. Buildings are along the shoreline in the distance. Caption reads: "View from Ye Headland Inn. Trefethen, Ma...
Photograph

Plan of Plimouth Including Bays, Harbors and Islands . . .

Date: 
Description: Hand-drawn map of the area at the time of Pilgrim landing, drawn by Charles Blaskowikz. Includes commemorative historical notes.
Photograph

Exterior View of Fort Sumpter

Date: 1866
Description: Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks.
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Photograph

Muir Glacier

Date: 
Description: View of Muir Glacier from across a bay.
Photograph

Elevated City View

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of city and harbor.
Photograph

Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east; the bluff rises on the left, the harbor is on the right. The cottage in the foreground with pergola and lattice ...
Photograph

Women at Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: The photographer's daughter, Helen Hotz Schmid, left, and granddaughter, Margaret Schmid, right, pose at water's edge with Nenn Steck Hotz at Toft Point ne...
Photograph

Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point.
Photograph

Abandoned Town

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned town of Fayette. Snail Shell Harbor is in the foreground, with a low warehouse along the boat dock and empty buildings on th...
Photograph

Furnace Complex

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background.
Photograph

Dolomite Cliffs

Date: 02 1925
Description: Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr...
Photograph

Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene from Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) in Fish Creek looking north toward frozen Fish Creek Harbor with the bluffs in Peninsula State Park beyond. ...
Photograph

Hen Island

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view over a heavily wooded area to Fish Creek Harbor and Hen Island, with Peninsula State Park in the background.
Photograph

Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline over water towards a three-masted sailing vessel docked at Baileys Harbor pier. Houses and commercial buildings line the shore.
Print

Paul's Cafe Menu Exterior

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the menu for Paul's Cafe, with a bird's-eye view map of "Washburn's Natural Deep Water Land Locked Harbor," Chequamegon Bay, and the Apostle Is...
Postcard

Superior Harbor

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of harbor, with shipyards in the foreground and Superior in the background. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Harbor, Superior, Wisconsin."

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