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Labor Day at Bayfield

Date: 1912
Description: Boats and people at the Bayfield dock on Labor Day 1912. Boats include Thelma; Lusitania; which later became a U.S. Mail boat; Captain Angus'...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Bayfield

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Bayfield, county seat of Bayfield County. On the lower left side is an inset for Bayfield and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1896
Description: Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Washburn

Date: 1910
Description: Bird's-eye view looking east, with Washburn Harbor at center and Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior covering most of the upper image. Streets with buildings...
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Photograph

Home Port

Date: 1963
Description: Fishing net and boat dock on shoreline.
Photograph

Gifford's Home on East Lake

Date: 
Description: People on the shore of East Lake (now called Lake Tahkodah) by the Gifford residence, with tipis in the distance.
Photograph

Brower Park

Date: 1904
Description: View across water towards Brower Park near Houghton Point.
Photograph

South Twin Island Fishing Village

Date: 1915
Description: Building, boats, and fish net drying reels on South Twin Island in the Apostle Islands archipelago.
Photograph

City Dock at Bayfield

Date: 1910
Description: View towards shoreline of an automobile being driven on the Bayfield City Dock. Colonel Woods' boat, "Nebraska" is at the dock. Sam Fifields' "Stella" is a...
Postcard

Cornucopia Fishing Fleet

Date: 
Description: Fishing Fleet in the harbor. Caption reads: "The Cornucopia Fishing Fleet, Cornucopia, Wis."
Photograph

Elevator and Coal Dock

Date: 
Description: Elevator and coal dock in Washburn.
Photograph

Elevator and Coal Docks

Date: 
Description: Elevator and coal docks, including ships.
Photograph

Wharf Buildings

Date: 1969
Description: View from water of the sides of three wharf buildings in a bay of Lake Superior.
Photograph

The Landing at Brookside Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Numerous boat docks along shoreline of one of the Eau Claire Lakes.
Photograph

Dam and Fishway at Brookside Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Rustic wooden dam and bridge between two of the Eau Claire Lakes in southwest Bayfield County.
Photograph

Cabins at Lyndale Bay Resort

Date: 1938
Description: Cabins on shoreline of Upper Eau Claire Lake at Lyndale Bay Resort.
Photograph

Path to Lyndale Bay Resort Cabins

Date: 1938
Description: Cabins around clearing in the woods at Lyndale Bay Resort on Upper Eau Claire Lake.
Photograph

Shoreline Cabins at Lyndale Bay Resort

Date: 1938
Description: Cabins around Lyndale Bay of Upper Eau Claire Lake.

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