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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Outside view of the Hull Cottage porch, including the boardwalk leading from the lake. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge with no glass in the windows and an overgrown yard on Hermit Island. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Island, possibly during a period of renovation. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | F.M. Brown and Annie S. Brown's summer cottage in Maple Bluff. The address would now be 655 Farwell Street. Annie S. Brown is sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel posing on a weathered log, with fields, fence, and buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | A view of a row of wooden vacation homes bordering a wooded area. In the foreground a woman sits on her front porch and looks toward the camera. Others peo... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Large vacation homes in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Bayfield is in the background on the far shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Sidewalk in front of four houses along Nebraska Row at Madeline Island. Nebraska Row was started by Col. Frederick Woods in 1899 on the bluff at the wester... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View from lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman standing on lawn of the Woods mansion on Nebraska Row. Bayfield is visible on the opposite mainland shore of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | Bracken Brae, country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. The water tower and church steeple are visible on the far righ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A view of the lakeside facade of the two and one-half story wood frame house at Villa Henrietta, George Brumder's summer home on Pine Lake. Logs form a ter... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The east (lake-facing) side of the Pine Lake summer home of Henrietta Brumder, widow of Milwaukee publisher and businessman George Brumder (1839-1910). The... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Edward Brumder holding the attention of his Boston terrier-type dog, who is sitting on the lawn of the Brumder summer house on Pine Lake. There is a lawn r... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two unidentified women walking up a broad sidewalk to the lake-facing (east) facade of Villa Henrietta, originally the Pine Lake ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boathouses floating on the water at piers along the shore of the Black River. Some of the boathouses have been owned by many generations o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Front corner of the Main Lodge is in the left foreground with the Guest House in the background. The main lodge is built with horizontal logs. The guest ho... |
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