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Hog's Back

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Hog's Back, Tomahawk, Wis." The Hog's Back is a tree covered peninsula on Lake Mohawksin, also the former name of Bradley Park. A man...
Postcard

The Hogs Back

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "The Hogs Back, Tomahawk, Wis." The Hogs Back is a tree covered peninsula on Lake Mohawksin, also the former name of Bradley Park. A r...
Postcard

Train of House Boats

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Train of House Boats, at Tomahawk, Wis." A train of four houseboats in the water with another boat to pull them. Five rowboats are in...
Postcard

Wish You Were Here at The Northwoods Country — Wisconsin's Vacationland

Date: 
Description: The Northwoods area, numbered K9GTQ, is highlighted yellow inside an outline of the shape of the state of Wisconsin. A muskie, a robin, a bear and a deer a...
Photograph

No Admittance

Date: 12 1947
Description: View of trees and a farm building as seen through a dilapidated door and window of an old house. Snow is on the threshold of the door and in front of the b...
Map or Atlas

Lincoln County Map

Date: 1923
Description: A map of Lincoln County.
Photograph

Laundry at "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc."

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Description: Laundry time at "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." Two women are doing the laundry at a "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." camp. Items are hanging on a clothesline behind ...
Photograph

Forest Protection Headquarters

Date: 1936
Description: View across street towards men and women standing in small groups outside the brick Forest Protection Headquarters building of the Wisconsin Conservation D...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Tomahawk

Date: 1901
Description: A Sanborn map of Tomahawk featuring the Bay Mill Company's lumber yard.
Photograph

Entrance to State Forest

Date: 07 1940
Description: Two well-dressed women are posing next to an automobile parked near the arbor-like gate at the entrance to the Council Grounds State Forest, now the Counci...
Photograph

Picnic

Date: 07 1939
Description: Three unidentified women, two wearing wide-legged slacks, are supervising a group of children around a stone fireplace in Council Grounds State Forest (now...
Photograph

Brush Raft on Pine Lake

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: An unidentified man is inspecting a construction of logs and branches, stacked neatly and tied with ropes. He is standing on ice on a cleared area of a sno...
Photograph

Handling a Fire Hose

Date: 08 1940
Description: Two men, one wearing a pith helmet, are directing the stream from a fire hose over a body of water. There are several men in the background, some wearing W...
Photograph

Prairie River

Date: 04 1971
Description: View across river towards a snowy shoreline along the Prairie River.
Photograph

Prairie River

Date: 04 1971
Description: View down center of the Prairie River. Snow and trees line both shorelines.
Map or Atlas

Lincoln County Map

Date: 
Description: A photocopy of the T.34N, R.8E portion of a map of Lincoln County.
Map or Atlas

Lincoln County Map

Date: 1902
Description: A plat map of Lincoln County showing Township 34 North, Range 8 East.
Photograph

White Pine

Date: 1981
Description: An unidentified man in a winter coat is standing with his right hand resting on a large limb of a mature white pine on the grounds of the T.B. Scott Mansio...
Photograph

T.B. Scott Mansion

Date: 1907
Description: View across water towards a large Queen Anne style house sitting on a hill above the Wisconsin River. There is a bridge on the left and a road, now South C...
Map or Atlas

Heafford Junction Map

Date: 1982
Description: This standard U.S.G.S. topographic map was annotated by civil engineer and railroad historian James P. Kaysen to show the location of existing and defunct ...

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