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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...
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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'...
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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...
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Gaylord Nelson Canoeing The Namekagon River

Date: 1966
Description: Gaylord Nelson participates in a canoe trip down the Namekagon River in an effort to protect the river under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
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Gazing at Lyndale Bay

Date: 1938
Description: Two men standing near cabins looking at Upper Eau Claire Lake.
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Gifford's on East Lake

Date: 1936
Description: View from water of people sitting in a canoe next to a boat dock where more people are standing. A boathouse is on shore and a cottage is up a slight hill ...
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Gifford's Resort

Date: 1936
Description: View from water of people sitting in a canoe on the shore of East Lake next to a dock on which people are standing and a flag is waving. On shore there is ...
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Meskan's on East Lake

Date: 1935
Description: View from water of a boy sitting on the back of a wooden boat with his feet on a pier. He is holding a dog which is standing on the dock. There is a small ...
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Boats at Les Crandall's

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of people on boat dock on Namakagon Lake. Some of them are holding stringers of recently caught fish, and wooden rowboats are tied to the doc...
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Lake Superior Ice Covered Shoreline

Date: 1934
Description: Three men standing on frozen Lake Superior in front of ice covered shoreline.
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Whip-Poor-Will Camp

Date: 1937
Description: Cedar shake and log cabin near lakeshore with boats. There is a man in a motorboat along the shore.
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Lifting the Nets on Lake Superior

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

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

Date: 1938
Description: An ice fishermen sitting in a shelter bobbing for fish on Lake Superior near Cornucopia.
Postcard

The Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post

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Description: Postcard of the "Vessel's Stern and Rudder Post" geological formation on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands. View of the shoreline and a man sitti...
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Devil's Island, View in the Green Room

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Description: Colorized postcard of a view of the geologic formation known as the Green Room near the lighthouse on Devil's Island, part of the Apostle Islands. A boat w...
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Castle Rock

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Description: Colorized postcard of Castle Rock, a geological formation of the coast of the Apostle Islands. A man is sitting under the arch. Caption reads: "Castle Rock...
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Lyndale Bay Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View from water of men fishing from boats along lakeshore in front of three cabins on Upper Eau Claire Lake.
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Row Boats on Five Island Lake

Date: 1941
Description: View looking out over Five Island Lake at Pine Crest Lodge with two wooden row boats on shore in the foreground. Two people are rowing another boat in the ...
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Log-rolling

Date: 1932
Description: View from water of log rolling with one man in the water holding onto a log, and another man standing on a rolling log. Behind the log is a wooden rowboat ...

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