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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
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| Description: | Dog sled loaded with luggage. Identified from left: first two unidentified; Mary Louise O'Brien Eldridge; Richard Eldridge; Margaret Russell; Gram Johnson ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two women sitting in dog cart on dirt street in front of boardwalk. La Pointe Village School is in the background. Dog team belongs to Tom Stahl. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Boardwalk leading to St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn and boats on shoreline of Lake Superior on Madeline Island. The Old Mission Inn had numerous modifications over the years. It was razed in... |
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| Description: | View of cottages and Mission dock on Lake Superior on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from water of the Old Mission Inn on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island. Dwelling to the left is a portion of the lower dormit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from water of Mission cottages along shoreline of Lake Superior in La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Three young men dressed in women's clothing stand on a tennis court during 4th of July celebration. William Baker, Ted Dwyer, and Herbert Rogers. |
| Date: | 07 04 1922 |
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| Description: | Women participating in egg race game during 4th of July celebration on Madeline Island, Apostle Island. Included are ?,?, Harriet Webb, Peg Caswell and Dor... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Oliver Wilson, Leo Capser, and Jesse Stone, all wearing hats, pose for a group portrait. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Women standing at General Fifield's Camp Stella at Sand Island, Apostle Island, Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young women standing on a boardwalk on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Four young girls posing in dresses. Louise Lock, Louise Baker, Elizabeth Baker, and Elizabith Nesbit (Mrs. S.C. Marty, SR.) |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three young men and a girl standing at South Shore Farm located on an Apostle Island. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Saxon in buggy with umbrella being pulled by her horse named Trixie. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Clarence Russell leaning next to a Jenny bi-plane, wearing aviator gear. This was the first airplane to land on Madeline Island. |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Hull and Elizabeth Nisbet on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Group of people on an Apostle Island log-strewn beach. Outing included Johnie Webb, Mrs. Webb, Herbert Turman and Herbert Rogers. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Leo Capser, founder of the Madeline Island Historical Museum, sitting on a bench playing piano on the Old Mission Dock at Madeline Island. |
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