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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'...
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

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

Buildings on a Hillside

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

Brower Park

Date: 1904
Description: View across water towards Brower Park near Houghton Point.
Photograph

The Landing at Private Slack's Beautyrest Resort

Date: 1936
Description: Point of land in lake with lawn chairs in the shade of trees and wooden boats tied to boat dock on Lake Owen. Caption reads: "The Landing at Private Slack'...
Photograph

Landing at Island View Resort on Lake Owen

Date: 
Description: View looking down at shoreline of the landing at C.A. Knapps Island View Resort. There are five wooden rowboats tied up on shore near a wooden dock with tw...
Photograph

Four People with Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: Group portrait of four people standing on a pier holding two lines of fish that they caught at Nature Lovers Paradise resort on Jackson Lake. The two men, ...
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...
Print

Apostle Islands Visit

Date: 07 2001
Description: David Obey poses with Park Ranger Geoffrey Smith on the left and Martin Hanson on the right. They are standing on the beach with water and land in the back...
Photograph

Winter Mooring

Date: 1976
Description: Fishing boats wintering on Lake Superior, which is frozen and covered with snow. Wooden fishing boxes are strewn in the foreground, and a wooded shoreline ...
Photograph

Two Marys on Birch-lined Path

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are standing on a snowy birch-lined boardwalk on the shore of Lake Namakagon at Forest Lodge. Mother Mary is w...
Photograph

Mary Sitting in Front of Canoe

Date: 1947
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke), wearing a patterned short-sleeve blouse, shorts, and a flower in her hair, is sitting in the front of a canoe on the Namakagon River i...
Photograph

Mary Griggs and Dairyman with Brown Swiss Calves

Date: 1957
Description: Mary Griggs dressed in a Swedish costume and the dairyman holding two Brown Swiss calves in the pasture near the shore of Lake Namakagon. The calves have f...
Photograph

Cutting Ice on Namakagon Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of three men cutting and loading ice into a dump truck on Namakagon Lake. One man is guiding ice blocks through open water to a conv...
Photograph

Mary Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous...
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1954
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is sitting in the bow of a canoe as a young male companion paddles them on the Namakagon River. Mary is wearing a white blouse and h...
Photograph

Boathouse with Three Canoes

Date: 1978
Description: Two-story vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagan. Two canoes are on the boathouse deck and a red canoe is in the lake tied to the deck. Both floors of th...
Photograph

Mary Burke preparing to toss bowling ball on grass bowling green

Date: 1993
Description: Mary Burke is standing on the grass bowling green, preparing to toss a black ball down the pitch during the 100th anniversary celebration for Forest Lodge...
Photograph

Cow Pasture Lane

Date: 10 1951
Description: Narrow curved dirt lane passing by fenced cow pasture. Lake Namakagon is seen through autumn birch trees; two automobiles are parked on the grass under the...
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs on Boathouse Second Story Deck

Date: 10 1960
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs, dressed in a black dress and coat and using a cane, is standing on the second story outside deck of the Forest Lodge Boathouse on L...

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