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| Description: | View across lawn toward the Cottage, with separate housing next door to the right, and the covered walkway. Two people are walking under the walkway. The s... |
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| Description: | View toward the cottages, taken from the dirt road. Trees obscure much of the buildings, and the covered walkway is to the right. |
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| Description: | A view of the dance hall, with its many windows. On the second floor, a shirt drys in the window. The main house is in the background. Grassy areas and flo... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the entrance, with the covered walkway and a "Welcome" sign, to the Unity House complex. The dirt road leading to the main house can be se... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two couples walking on a trail. A lake is is the background, along with log cabins. A canoe with three people is in the background. |
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| Description: | View along shoreline toward people relaxing on a beach lined with vacation houses. Groups of men and women are standing or sitting, some wearing street clo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water. |
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| Description: | Two children pose for a portrait while standing along a shoreline next to a row of cottages. Several rowboats are pulled ashore, and people are on the cott... |
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| Description: | A group of girls and women sit on the porch of the Holiday House of the Girls' Friendly Society while others sit inside an automobile at right to pose for ... |
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| Description: | Exterior of a vacation lodge with raised wooden walkways that lead through a wooded area. The trail to the main lodge continues to the right toward anothe... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Automobile ruts leading through trees past dwellings on a hill. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Large vacation homes in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Bayfield is in the background on the far shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lakeside view from pier of large two-story house and grounds on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Nebraska Row on the lakeshore of the west side of La Pointe, showing houses, roads and piers. Nebraska Row was started in 1899 when summer r... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View from lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman standing on lawn of the Woods mansion on Nebraska Row. Bayfield is visible on the opposite mainland shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | View of a wooden boat named the "Tip Top" tied to a dock on a lake at Pine Crest Lodge. In the background the opposite shoreline across the lake is visible... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. The water tower and church steeple are visible on the far righ... |
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