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Camp Keewatin

Date: 10 24 1911
Description: Elevated view of the camp along a lake.
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Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake

Date: 12 01 1911
Description: An elevated view from hill of Pokegama Camp at Spider Lake. Caption reads: "Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake, Mercer, Wis."
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Camping Trailers

Date: 08 1937
Description: Camping trailers and automobiles are parked in a wooded area. Several trailers have awnings over the windows. The caption on the negative envelope reads" "...
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Tea Room Cottage

Date: 08 1937
Description: A small vertical log cabin is adorned with canvas awnings over window boxes and patterned shingle roof. There is a chimney at the rear, and the front doubl...
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Voss' Birchwood Lodge

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Description: View down sidewalk towards cottages at a northwoods lodge. Caption reads: "Voss' Birchwood Lodge, Manitowish, Wis."
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Lance's 'Sylvan Lodge'

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Description: View of a resort cottage. The cottage has two doors on the left side, and two doors on the front. Caption reads: "Lance's 'Sylvan Lodge,' Manitowish, Wis."
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View of Long Lake

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Description: Elevated view of Long Lake with two small islands. A building is on the far shoreline. Caption reads: "View of Long Lake, Mercer, Wis."
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Out for a Stroll

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Description: View towards a black bear walking up a road. Text reads: "Out for a Stroll, Greetings from Mercer, Wisconsin."
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The Oasis

Date: 1912
Description: View from water towards a shoreline and a log cabin in the woods by a lake. Rowboats and a small pier are at the shoreline. Caption reads: "The Oasis, Merc...
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Echo Lodge, Echo Lake

Date: 1947
Description: View across lake towards cottages on the shoreline surrounded by pine trees. A rowboat and canoe are on the shore. Caption reads: "Echo Lodge, Echo Lake, M...
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Beaver Lodge

Date: 1953
Description: View towards a man wearing a hat and tall boots who is standing with his hand on a large wheel, perhaps a mill wheel, which is leaning against trees on the...
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Fishing

Date: 1931
Description: A man standing in a small boat controls a trolling motor with a rope as he leads a flotilla of canoes. There is a densely wooded shoreline in the backgroun...
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Boating

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of a man smoking a cigarette sitting in the bow of a motor propelled wooden boat waving a greeting toward the photographer. There are four ot...
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Chinking

Date: 1935
Description: A well-dressed man sitting on a boulder at right is watching two other men repair the chinking on a log cabin. Tar paper roofing has been applied over the ...
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Log Cabin

Date: 1935
Description: Smoke is rising from the flue of a small log cabin in a clearing. There are tree stumps in the foreground.
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Catch of the Day

Date: 1935
Description: Philip, left, and Herbert E. Brumder posing behind dozens of fish of several species which have been nailed to saplings suspended between trees.

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