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Group on Devils Island

Date: 1913
Description: Group of men and women standing on a dock at Devils Island. From left to right are Nelson Angus, A.G. Hull, Elsie Tough (Kansas City), Anne Ashley, Mrs. Hu...
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Picnicking near Lake Superior

Date: 1914
Description: Four individuals, sitting in the shade near a table during a picnic on Madeline Island. Includes Elizabeth Nesbet (Mrs. S.C. Marty, Sr.), Gertrude Capser (...
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South Twin Island Fishing Village

Date: 1915
Description: Building, boats, and fish net drying reels on South Twin Island in the Apostle Islands archipelago.
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Leo Capser Playing Piano on Old Mission Dock

Date: 1920
Description: Leo Capser, founder of the Madeline Island Historical Museum, sitting on a bench playing piano on the Old Mission Dock at Madeline Island.
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Car Ferry

Date: 1938
Description: A car ferry transporting a car on Lake Superior between LaPointe, Madeline Island, and Bayfield. Two men are sitting on a bench near the car, and a shoreli...
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Snug Harbor

Date: 1956
Description: Elevated view of a rowboat moored in a small cove on Madeline Island in the Apostle Islands.
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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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