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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-... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Woods family sitting in yard outside house on Nebraska Row, La Pointe, Madeline Island. The house was built in 1904. Left to right: Twins Tom & Henry W... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of three of the early houses on Nebraska Row in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Haecker house is in the foreground, the Woods' house is next door. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Howard Russell with dog team bringing the mail to La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Child passengers being transported on a wagon pulled by dog team belonging to Thomas Stahl. Wagon and dog team are on the boardwalk in La Pointe. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Colonel and Mrs. Woods (right center) arriving on Madeline Island dock for summer visit. Thomas Stahl and his dog team (at left), loading luggage into dog ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Mary L. Eldridge, Dick Eldridge, Barney Johnson, and two other people kneeling in front of dog sled on Lake Superior. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around picket fence in front of a decorated St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Congregational Church, a.k.a. Old Mission Church. The interior walls are covered with cedar trees. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Father Gumbly and Sisters, with three Native Americans in ceremonial dress, standing outdoors in front of altar. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Indian cemetery. A large body of water is in the background. Caption reads: "Indian Burying Grounds, Bayfield, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Old Mission, as seen from the pier with Old Mission Congregational Church behind it. This Mission was established in 1830 by Fred... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Mission Dock with a large white building behind it. It is not the Old Mission House, as sometimes believed to be, and the term "Mission Dock" may not e... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Old Mission Inn by what is believed to be the first Protestant religious building in Wisconsin called Old Mission Congregational Church. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The interior of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. It was built in 1841 by Father Frederick Baraga (later Bishop), who established his mission in 1835. A small ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store. |
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