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Rockefeller and McCormick Families

Date: 1906
Description: Group portrait of Rockefeller and McCormick families. Pictured are (L to R): John D. Rockefeller, Sr., unidentified young man, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Sr...
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Railroad Workers at Boardinghouse

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of boarders, all railroad shop workers, sitting on the front porch at Mrs. Armour's boarding house. Left to right are: Bill Salsig, Roy Mart...
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WAVES Leaving with Bags

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Description: Five women dressed in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) uniforms saluting and carrying suitcases, probably at the University of Wiscon...
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Women Saluting

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Description: Women military cadets stand in a line saluting.
Postcard

Main Lodge at Old Mission Inn

Date: 1937
Description: Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965.
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Our Cottage

Date: 1910
Description: A family sits on a porch of a two-story cedar shake house with Lake Superior in background.
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Nichols House

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Description: Exterior view of Nichols House with a group of people on and around the porch.
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Water Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards dwellings along unpaved Water Street.
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"Hearthstone"

Date: 1974
Description: "Hearthstone," a house built in 1880-1882 by paper mill owner Henry J. Rogers, was the first residence electrified from a centrally located hydroelectric p...
Postcard

Hoo Hoo Club Hotel

Date: 04 24 1910
Description: The Hoo Hoo Club Hotel, a lumbermen's social organization. Two men are standing near a man driving a sled carrying milk cans pulled by two horses in front ...
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Reeve Residence

Date: 1870
Description: View of the Reeve residence on the corner of Lawrence and Onieda Streets.
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Hearthstone House

Date: 1974
Description: Front view of historic house in the summertime.
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Depot and Mineral Springs Hotel

Date: 1875
Description: View across unpaved road towards a group of men standing on the platform at the train depot, with the Mineral Springs Hotel behind and to the right. Anothe...
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Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1885
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1899
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Dill Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Dill Hall, a women's dormitory at Northland College. A clapboard building with wooden shingles, it caught fire in 1926 and was totally destroyed within a h...
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Trimpey House

Date: 1925
Description: Front view of Trimpey house in winter.
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Park House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l...
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Possible Morehead Residence

Date: 1910
Description: View of what possibly was the William Morehead residence on the bank of the Sugar River. The original Greek Revival structure was erected in 1858 by Veron...

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