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Cabin on the Shore

Date: 1926
Description: View of rustic cabin with a large stone chimney standing by the shore. There is another house or boathouse in the far background near the remains of a pier...
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Log Buildings

Date: 1926
Description: Two deteriorating log buildings stand in a stony meadow. There is a stone fence on the left and trees beyond.
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Wrecked Boat in Winter

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified man poses near a wrecked boat. A log house with two lean-to additions is behind him and there is a smaller log building on the left. Snow c...
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Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: Cows stand in shallow water in a rolling pasture in what is now Peninsula State Park. There is an old log building in the background.
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Kincaid

Date: 1915
Description: David Kincaid sits in a sulky harnessed to a horse in front of an old log building. Lake Michigan provides the backdrop. Kincaid was the caretaker of the...
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Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: The Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Life Saving Station viewed from between a fishing boat and a pier warehouse. The station's pier extends into the harbor and ...
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Field of Flowers

Date: 1920
Description: A car, left, is parked beside a field of blooming daisies. There is an old log cabin in the background.
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Two Men in front of Barn

Date: 1921
Description: Two men pose in front of a large barn at Newport Village. The barn was used to store lumber.
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Abandoned Farm

Date: 1921
Description: View across snowy field of a shingled house, barn and other outbuildings standing empty near the shore of Lake Michigan at Newport Village.
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Alex Krueger Family

Date: 10 1900
Description: Portrait of the Alex Krueger family by lime kiln ruins. Florentina is standing holding and Jennie, Alexander is sitting with Edgar, and Rover, the family d...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Several boats are moored in the protected harbor. An old warehouse stands on a pier. A tall bluff and rock cliff dominates the opposite shoreline.
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of the photographer's son, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) sitting on the bluff overlooking Fish Creek Harbor. The old warehouses are seen on the pi...
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Furnace Complex

Date: 02 11 1925
Description: View of the large abandoned furnace complex, left, company store, far right, and blacksmith shop behind the company store, on the site of the Jackson Iron ...
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Weber Brewery

Date: 07 1991
Description: "The Weber Brewery ceased operation in 1962."
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Weber Brewery

Date: 07 1991
Description: "Deep in the bowels of the old brewery, Craig Ruffing and Les Beck examine an old cellar."
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Company Store

Date: 02 1925
Description: There is smoke damage to the bricks evident above the windows of the company store in this view of the ghost town of Fayette. To the right, with dormers, i...
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Old Hotel

Date: 02 1925
Description: Workers' houses stand in front of the Fayette Tourists Lodge. After the Jackson Iron Company left in 1891, Fayette became a tourist destination and is now ...
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View of Fayette

Date: 02 1925
Description: An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree...
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Abandoned Town

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned town of Fayette. Snail Shell Harbor is in the foreground, with a low warehouse along the boat dock and empty buildings on th...
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Furnace Complex

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background.

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