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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'...
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Brower Park

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

Jacob Johnson & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Jacob Johnson & Company of Bayfield, Wisconsin, a wholesale dealer in fresh and saltwater Lake Superior Fish. Features a cartoon of a man wea...
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

View of Booth Fisheries Dock

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Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the fishery and its dock. Caption reads: "View of Booth Fisheries Dock."
Postcard

City Dock

Date: 1949
Description: Photographic postcard view of the City Dock on Lake Superior. There are four boats, and people and cars are on the dock. A sign in the foreground reads: "N...
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

The Steamship Barker

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Description: Three women stand on the shore in front of the steamer Barker at Devils Island natural dock.
Photograph

Cornucopia Harbor

Date: 06 19 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view of Cornucopia Harbor. There is a boat moored at a pier near a barn-shaped building. An automobile is parked on the far left. In the ...
Photograph

Cornucopia Harbor

Date: 06 19 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view over water towards East slip in Cornucopia Harbor. There is a small cluster of buildings along the left and right sides with boats m...
Photograph

Cornucopia Harbor

Date: 06 19 1958
Description: View over water towards storm damage in Cornucopia Harbor. West slip. There is a pile of wood along the shoreline in the foreground, with a boat moored jus...
Photograph

Michela Coal & Dock Company

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Description: View across water towards ships unloading coal and sulphur. Cranes rise above both ships, and a man is walking near a large pile of coal in the background ...
Photograph

Canadian Ship at Michela Coal & Wood Dock

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Description: Elevated view over railroads tracks of Canadian ship with cargo of wood pulp. Sulphide bales are being unloaded and there are several men on the ship. In t...
Photograph

Michela Coal & Dock Company

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Description: View from shoreline of dock site towards Lake Superior, showing sulphur pile and a large chute in the background.
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Pulling Out the Boats

Date: 11 29 1908
Description: Men working on pulling the boat "Fish Hawk" out of the water. One man is kneeling in front of the boat and looking at the camera. A man in the background i...
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs on Snowy Boardwalk

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing on the birch-lined boardwalk leading to the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wool dress, coat and leather boots...
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Mary Griggs (Burke) Ascending Boathouse Deck

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs (Burke) is wearing a one-piece bathing suit as she climbs out of Lake Namakagon onto the Forest Lodge boathouse deck while her dachshund awaits...
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Mary Griggs holding a beverage in canoe

Date: 1949
Description: Mary is wearing belted shorts and a short sleeve blouse while sitting sideways in a wood-strip and canvas canoe that is at rest near the shoreline on Lake ...

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