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Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of Parts of Douglas, Bayfield, Washburn, and Sawyer Counties, Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: Shows lands in green owned and for sale by Homeseekers Land Company, H.J. McKusick, Secretary. Map, part colored. No scale. Photographs on reverse of origi...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Fish Keep You Busy Here

Date: 
Description: A large, ominous fish jumps over a red canoe, attempting to eat the man in the canoe. The man, wearing a brown suit, dives into the water. The card's capti...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Fishing is Excellent Here

Date: 
Description: Two men, wearing straw hats and overalls, stand in a canoe while attempting to reel in a giant fish. The sun is setting on the horizon in the background. T...
Photograph

Tug Boat in Frozen Lake Minnetonka

Date: 1939
Description: View of a tug boat docked on frozen Lake Minnetonka. The boat was powered by an International PD-80 power unit and bears signage reading "Priscilla" and "....
Photograph

Lakeshore and Landing at Forest View Lodge

Date: 
Description: View of the lakeshore and landing at Forest View Lodge from a hillside. A small dwelling and several boats stand along the forested waterfront.
Map or Atlas

Colton's Minnesota

Date: 1871
Description: This map shows the entire state, county boundaries, railroads, cities and towns, Lake Superior, and the extent of surveyed townships with Public Land Surve...
Photograph

Kugler Homestead

Date: 1914
Description: View across water towards a log cabin and an outbuilding on the homestead of Edwin Kugler between Pine and McFarland Lakes, north of Chicago Bay. There is ...
Photograph

Kugler and The Gang

Date: 1914
Description: From left to right: Clay, Jack, and Edwin Kugler are next to a canoe on the shore of Pine Lake.
Photograph

Carl's Raft

Date: 1914
Description: View of a raft floating in the water. Carl made this primitive "raft" of a single saw log and a tree trunk fastened together with nails.
Photograph

Moose at Lake Sturgeon

Date: 1911
Description: View from a canoe of a moose feeding in the waters of Sturgeon Lake. The prow of the canoe is in the foreground.
Photograph

Old Dawson Trail Dam

Date: 1911
Description: An elevated view of the bridge and dam on the Old Dawson Trail at the end of Sturgeon Lake. The dam was built in 1873 by Simon Dawson.
Photograph

Tanner Lake

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang canoes on Tanner Lake.
Photograph

G. Swenson Store

Date: 1911
Description: View across water towards the Gang standing in front of G. Swenson's Store in Kettle Falls, which is partially on the water. The steamer schedule is handwr...
Photograph

B Walks a Boom

Date: 08 1915
Description: B (William Norris) walking a boom in the water with Jack looking on from a canoe nearby. B is using a paddle to balance himself. This is in the Narrows bet...
Photograph

Sunset on the Lake

Date: 08 1915
Description: One of The Gang is silhouetted sitting in a canoe as the sun is setting over Namakan Lake.
Photograph

Steamboat on Rainy Lake

Date: 08 1915
Description: An elevated view of a steamboat on Rainy Lake near Kettle Falls. In the background is borrow pit for construction of Kettle Falls Dam.
Photograph

Boats On the Lake

Date: 1910
Description: A Steam Tender towing a bateau on a lake (probably Basswood Lake).
Photograph

Canoeing On a Lake

Date: 1910
Description: Two of The Gang paddling their canoe on a lake.
Photograph

Portage at Basswood Lake

Date: 1910
Description: The Gang's canoes are at the shore of Basswood Lake as they prepare to portage.
Photograph

Indian Village

Date: 1910
Description: A view of an Indian Village, including wikiups, a canoe, a cabin, and a dog. There is a lake in the background.

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