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| Description: | Elizabeth Olson, her sons, and another boy, in canoes owned by the Border Lakes Wilderness Outfitting Company. This photograph was probably taken for publi... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas during a canoe trip with conservationist Sigurd F. Olson. He is sitting with his hat in hand beside a canoe pulled... |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson with his sons, Robert and Sig Jr., after a duck hunt. |
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| Description: | View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson. |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson (second from the left), his two sons on the right, and two unidentified men, thought to be wilderness guides who worked for his Border Lakes O... |
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| Description: | Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt and Sigurd Olson, during the session when Eisenstadt photographed Olson for Life magazine. |
| Date: | 08 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson during the American Forest Trail ride at Brent Lake in Quetico Provincial Park. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, center, probably during the 1948 Trail Riders trip to the Quetico-Superior region. The identity of the man to his right is not known. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, left, traveling by dogsled with game hunter Uiho Salminen as part of his study of predator control for his master's degree. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Sigurd Olson, age 41, probably taken for publicity purposes. |
| Date: | 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., photographed while visiting the cabin of author Sigurd Olson at Listening Point. Knopf published all eight of Olson's books... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers play with a large push ball while others look on. The military buildings of the United States Naval Training Camp stand behind the spe... |
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| Description: | Man standing on bluff with Mississippi River far below in the background. |
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| Description: | The Cobbossee Colony (Camp?) Boardwalk leads past multiple log cottages in a wooded area. |
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| Description: | People stand along a log boardwalk in front of log cottages. Trees and foliage surround the buildings. |
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| Description: | A wooden cabin with a stone chimney stands at Wyonegonic Camp, the oldest girls' camp in the United States. The cabin is surrounded by trees and a tipi sta... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of White Birch Lodge. A log walkway leads to the rustic summer house surrounded by trees. A body of water stands in the background. |
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| Description: | Students of Clarion State Normal School wear costumes and process past trees and school buildings during a campus pageant. Caption reads: "Campus Pageant -... |
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