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Book or Pamphlet

Playground of Wisconsin's Northwoods Pamphlet

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season.
Print

Greetings From The Copper Country

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card printed on a sheet of copper. It has a scene of log buildings, a stockade fence, and woods in the background. Above is the text "Michigan Copp...
Photograph

Community House

Date: 1936
Description: Community room of the Library and Community Center.
Photograph

Log Cabin Lodge People at Picnic Table

Date: 1937
Description: Three men, one woman and one child sit on lawn chairs and at a picnic table outside under the trees at Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent. Three cabins are...
Print

M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
Document

Minocqua Lumber Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Minocqua Lumber Company, with a footer of two houses near the water's edge with a forest in the background that extends along the left-ha...
Photograph

Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
Photograph

Community Building

Date: 1930
Description: View from the dirt road of front of a one-story log building with a brick chimney. In the foreground are a chain link fence, gate, and shrubs. This buildin...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1896
Description: Front cover and menu page from the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet. On the cover is an illustration of Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott riding his horse, "Gunpowde...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet, with a man wielding an axe and chopping down a tree. A log cabin stands in the woods be...
Photograph

The Getto Family

Date: 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of five members of the Getto family posing among trees. Left to right: Fred Getto, Henry Getto, Alma Getto, Oscar Getto, and Maria G...
Photograph

"There Is No Place Like Home"

Date: 1903
Description: View of a man sitting outdoors in a chair near the door of a log cabin in a clearing. He is smoking a pipe and reading. A lamp is hanging from the end of a...
Photograph

Jeannette Holt Reading on the New Porch Addition at Island Lodge

Date: 1911
Description: Seen in profile, Jeannette Holt is sitting in a rocking chair and reading a book, on the new porch addition to Island Lodge. A table with tablecloth and ch...
Photograph

I.P. Rumsey Reading in the Hammock at Island Lodge

Date: 08 20 1913
Description: I.P. Rumsey is reading a book while lying in the hammock on the porch at Island Lodge. A pillow is tucked under his head. He is dressed in a long sleeved s...
Drawing

A Bird's Eye View of Shullsburg in 1838

Date: 1838
Description: Drawing of Shullsburg. There is a numbered key on the left that reads, at top: "Explanation. Nos. Denote present Site." Streets are named on the map and ma...
Photograph

Church Music on Porch at Island Lodge

Date: 1916
Description: Arch McClure, on the left, is Holding a book and standing behind the home-made wooden podium that is decorated with flowers. A group of musicians is playin...

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