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Minocqua

Date: 07 10 1949
Description: Aerial view of Minocqua showing the surrounding lakes.
Photograph

Main Street, Looking North from Davenport Street

Date: 1944
Description: View of intersection with pedestrians crossing the street in the town central business district. Businesses include three drugstores, a hotel, and a clothi...
Photograph

Emery DeNoyer

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Emery DeNoyer (b.1887), singer of lumberjack songs. "He earned his keep in the Wisconsin lumber camps not by logging (for he only had only one eye and one ...
Photograph

Rhinelander Logging Museum

Date: 1948
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander.
Photograph

Snowstorm over Harbor

Date: 09 27 1942
Description: Labeled as a "freak" snowstorm. A boathouse takes up the majority of the image, with a flag flying over the boathouse. The lake is not frozen, but ice and...
Historical Essay

Lithuanians in Wisconsin

Learn about the Lithuanians who emigrated to Wisconsin in the early 20th century and again after World War II.
Historical Essay

The Wisconsin Free Library Commission - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin
Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Wisconsin Folk Music Project Images - Image Gallery Essay

View images of regional singers and musicians from the Helene Stratman-Thomas folk music project.
Historical Essay

Joy Camps - Image Gallery Essay

Wisconsin's Camp Craft Camp for Girls, 1930-1955
This gallery shares more than 100 images from a northern Wisconsin summer camp for girls that operated between 1930 and 1955.
Photograph

072 - Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Scene from pageant, with many campers in costume acting out the story of Paul Bunyan. The group is posed sitting and standing outdoors in a sunny, grassy a...
Photograph

073 - Cast of Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u...
Map or Atlas

Minocqua Region, Top o' Wisconsin : The World's Most Concentrated Lake Region

Date: 1940
Description: This map shows lakes, roads, car trails, foot trails, railroads, resorts and camps, and fire towers. The map includes an inset location map and pictorial d...
Photograph

Wisconsin Dairy Farm

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of the Baumgartner Dairy Farm, one half mile east of Three Lakes, WI.
Postcard

Hotel Fenlon

Date: 1945
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Fenlon, Rhinelander, Wis." Hotel built of brick, with a marquee that reads: "Hotel Fenlon, Cocktail Lounge". There is also a ve...
Postcard

Blaesing's Shorewood Vista

Date: 08 25 1945
Description: Text on front reads: "Blaesing's Shorewood Vista, Lake George, Rhinelander, Wis." Along the front of the resort building river rocks are used to cover the ...
Postcard

Pop's Pine Resort

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: Pop's Pine Resort, Virgin Lake, Three Lakes, Wis." A large clapboard building with many windows and a long enclosed porch. There is la...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Oneida church celebrates 120th anniversary of its founding

Date: 1942-05-18
County: Oneida
City: 
Property Record

E LAKE GEORGE RD

Community: Pelican
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Trail's End
Reference Number: 107444
Property Record

JANSEN RD

Community: Minocqua
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Jansen's Squirrel Lake Resort
Reference Number: 107472
Property Record

CY WILLIAMS RD

Community: Three Lakes
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Hy-Mont/Rothmoor
Reference Number: 107483

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