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| Date: | 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Madeline Island Sign (Wisconsin Official Marker) depicting the history of the island and how it recieved its name. This sign was erected in 1956. |
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| Description: | View of cottages and Mission dock on Lake Superior on Madeline Island. |
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| Description: | The Old Mission, including the Old Mission Inn on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house of Captain Angus on the shore of Lake Superior in La Pointe on Madeline Island sometime around 1900. The Angus family came to Madeline Island in ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Madeline Island Historical Museum behind a "pencil" designed fence. |
| Date: | 05 16 1973 |
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| Description: | Front view of the La Pointe Town Hall on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Gaff-rigged schooner the "Lizzie W." on Lake Superior just off from the mission dock on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tom Stahl's dog team transporting two women in La Pointe on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Leo Capser, founder of the Madeline Island Historical Museum, sitting on a bench playing piano on the Old Mission Dock at Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | In-ground swimming pool behind large two-story cedar shake-sided house on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | White stucco house with wooden addition next to Lake Superior on Madeline Island. At the time of the photograph this was the oldest house on Madeline Islan... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Leo Capser's cabin on Madeline Island prior to construction of an addition. The cabin is located west of Grant's Point. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Woods' Manor on shores of Madeline Island. The manor was built in 1900 for summer resident Colonel Frederick Woods from Nebraska. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of three of the early houses on Nebraska Row in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Haecker house is in the foreground, the Woods' house is next door. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of Mrs. Harford sitting in pumpkin and corn in her garden on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two-story wood house with stone porch on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Large vacation homes in La Pointe, Madeline Island. Bayfield is in the background on the far shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Father Gumbly and Sisters, with three Native Americans in ceremonial dress, standing outdoors in front of altar. |
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