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Log Rolling Contest

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Description: View from water of a log rolling contest. One man is still upright and the other has fallen into the water. A boat is visible to the left and trees line th...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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View over Lake Superior towards Bayfield

Date: 1916
Description: View across Lake Superior towards Bayfield.
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Ice Fishing on Lake Owen

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Description: A man is sitting on a stool in the open doorway of a small tent on the ice on Lake Owen. He is holding a wooden drop line over a hole in the ice. Behind th...
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Water Break

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Description: A woman is squirting water from a canteen into a man's mouth at Mt. Telemark Resort.
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Snowmobiling on Chequamegon Bay

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Description: View across frozen bay towards a person riding a snowmobile in front of a split rock formation on Chequamegon Bay.
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Bayfield Marina

Date: 10 1978
Description: View from shoreline towards motorboats and sailboats docked in a marina. In the distance are buildings on a hill among trees.
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Bayfield Wharf

Date: 07 1936
Description: Fishing tugs are moored alongside the wharf at Bayfield. The large Bayfield Fish Co. building is identified in large letters on the end of the building. Th...
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Building a Raceway

Date: 04 24 1936
Description: Men are working on a project at the State Fish Hatchery. There is new concrete lining a raceway in the foreground, where a man is working on the floor. Woo...
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Canoe Poling

Date: 10 1937
Description: Rear view of two canoes, one directly behind the other, each propelled by a man traveling on the Brule River. The man in the foreground is using a pole, an...
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Summer Sanctuary

Date: 1959
Description: Paddlers in a canoe on their way down the Namekagon river. The shoreline on the left is tree-covered.
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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 ...
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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 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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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...
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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...
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Brown Swiss Cows in Cow Pasture

Date: 1959
Description: Close-up of three Brown Swiss cows at the split-rail fence in the Forest Lodge pasture. Lake Namakagon is in the background.

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