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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Columbian Exposition grounds from Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Cana Island Lighthouse and keeper's house as seen across the rocky shoreline. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from beach across Spike Horn Bay towards Cana Island and the Cana Island Light. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the steep shoreline and lighthouse at Eagle Harbor. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows counties, county seats, cities, towns, proposed and completed railroads, and U.S. Land Offices. Also included in the map are th... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | This mid-20th century tourist brochure for Bayfield County, Wisconsin, includes a map of the county showing towns, cities and villages, highways and roads,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A rear view of the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse at Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Cana Island lighthouse and keeper's house with the rocky shore in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cana Island lighthouse is seen in the far distance across the stony shoreline along Lake Michigan. |
| Community: | La Pointe |
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| County: | Ashland |
| Historic Name: | Devil's Island Light Keepers' Dwelling |
| Reference Number: | 243070 |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis.", "North Point Lighthouse". This is actually the Wind Point Lighthouse on Wind Point, located on the north end of Racine... |
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| Description: | Colored postcard view across water toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Racine Reef Light House, Racine, Wis." |
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| Pamela Cameron is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Community: | La Pointe |
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| County: | Ashland |
| Historic Name: | Devil's Island Light Keepers' Dwelling |
| Reference Number: | 243071 |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Long view of the Minnesota Point lighthouse, built at the entrance to Superior Harbor. It is allegedly the first lighthouse at the head of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | View across water towards the shoreline on the right, with a lighthouse in the distance. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Grassy Island Lighthouse, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the lighthouse and other buildings among trees. Caption reads: "Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." |
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| Description: | View along rocky shoreline toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Split Rock Lighthouse on north shore of Lake Superior." |
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