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Labor Day at Bayfield

Date: 1912
Description: Boats and people at the Bayfield dock on Labor Day 1912. Boats include Thelma; Lusitania; which later became a U.S. Mail boat; Captain Angus'...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Photograph

South Twin Island Fishing Village

Date: 1915
Description: Building, boats, and fish net drying reels on South Twin Island in the Apostle Islands archipelago.
Photograph

City Dock at Bayfield

Date: 1910
Description: View towards shoreline of an automobile being driven on the Bayfield City Dock. Colonel Woods' boat, "Nebraska" is at the dock. Sam Fifields' "Stella" is a...
Photograph

Wharf Buildings

Date: 1969
Description: View from water of the sides of three wharf buildings in a bay of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Lifting the Nets on Lake Superior

Date: 1937
Description: Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia.
Photograph

Catch of Fish

Date: 1937
Description: Two men standing on dock each holding a lake trout.
Photograph

Shoreline View

Date: 1942
Description: View from Lake Superior looking at the shoreline of Washburn. Houses, buildings, people, cars and trees are visible on shore.
Photograph

Memorial Park

Date: 1932
Description: View of two wooden foot bridges in Memorial Park. In the background are the waters of Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior. Picnic tables are among the trees. ...
Photograph

Bathing on Dock at Memorial Park

Date: 1935
Description: Boys and girls wearing bathing suits standing, swimming, or diving off of a large wooden dock into Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior on the beach at Memorial ...
Photograph

Unloading Coal in Washburn

Date: 1936
Description: Unloading coal from a large ship in Lake Superior onto land near Washburn. There is a large conveyor that has lights glowing in the dark sky. A large pile ...
Photograph

Lake Superior

Date: 03 1935
Description: View taken from shore of ice chunks in Lake Superior near Cornucopia while the ice is melting. In the background along the shoreline is a long pier.
Photograph

Squaw Bay Caves

Date: 1931
Description: View of the Squaw Bay Caves, near Cornucopia, with people in a boat off to the far left. The caves were renamed Mawikwe Bay, and Mawikwe is Ojibwe for weep...
Map or Atlas

Old Trails and Roads, Bayfield Peninsula, Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: This 1952 map of the northern parts of Bayfield and Douglas counties, Wisconsin, shows points established by E.T. Sweet in 1877, road points confirmed by S...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1917
Description: This 1917 map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, wagon roads, and lakes a...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Hunting & Fishing Paradise

Date: 1935
Description: This pictorial map of northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows the Chequamegon National Forest, the Red Cliff Indian Reservation, highways and roads, and...
Map or Atlas

Map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1906
Description: This 1906 map of Bayfield County, Wisconsin, shows towns, sections, cities, villages and post offices, land ownership, wagon roads, railroads, schools, gov...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Top o' Wisconsin

Date: 1967
Description: This tourist brochure for Bayfield County, Wisconsin, from 1967 includes a map of the county showing towns, cities and villages, highways and roads, railro...
Postcard

"The Apostle Island" Booth Fisheries Boat

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard view of a fishing boat in Lake Superior with tourists on board. There is an island on the horizon. Caption reads: "'The Apostle Isla...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard view down Main Street, with Lake Superior in the distance. There is a cafe on the left and bars on the right. Cars are parked along t...

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