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Motorboating at Devils Island

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a wooden in-board motorboat on Lake Superior. Two men are in the front seat, and two bathing beauties are riding in the back wavi...
Postcard

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 Bayfield

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Bayfield, county seat of Bayfield County. On the lower left side is an inset for Bayfield and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1896
Description: Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ...
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

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Photograph

Home Port

Date: 1963
Description: Fishing net and boat dock on shoreline.
Photograph

Buildings on a Hillside

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of buildings on a hillside.
Photograph

View of Bayfield

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of Bayfield.
Photograph

Sawmill

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph view of Bayfield with a sawmill in the foreground.
Photograph

Elevated View of Lake Superior and Town

Date: 1876
Description: Stereograph view of Lake Superior scenery and downtown area.
Photograph

Tipis on Lakeshore

Date: 
Description: Three tipis on the shore of East Lake, now called Lake Tahkodah.
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Scene on East Lake

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Description: Tipis along the shore of East Lake, now called Lake Tahkodah.
Photograph

Gifford's Home on East Lake

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Description: People on the shore of East Lake (now called Lake Tahkodah) by the Gifford residence, with tipis in the distance.
Photograph

Brower Park

Date: 1904
Description: View across water towards Brower Park near Houghton Point.
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.
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Houghton Point from Madeline Island

Date: 1900
Description: View of Hougton Point and Bayfield from Madeline Island.
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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...
Postcard

Cornucopia Fishing Fleet

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Description: Fishing Fleet in the harbor. Caption reads: "The Cornucopia Fishing Fleet, Cornucopia, Wis."

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