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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Idora," owned by Charles Russell, docked at the Mission 'stub dock' on Madeline Island. A group of people are on boar... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woodcut illustration of a whiskey still. The message on the reverse is addressed to Senator Gaylord Nelson. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered around picket fence in front of a decorated St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Pointe on Madeline Island. |
| Photographs from the Apostle Islands |
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| Learn about the history of the Apostle Islands in the northnmost part of Wisconsin, a popular summer refuge for tourists and residents. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The O-Sho-Ga monument near the Indian burial grounds. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Madeline Island, La Pointe, O-Sho-Ga Monument near the old Indi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A car ferry transporting a car on Lake Superior between LaPointe, Madeline Island, and Bayfield. Two men are sitting on a bench near the car, and a shoreli... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Balsams at Camp Stella on Sand Island. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Indian "pow-wow" and lacrosse contest between various reservations. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wooden boats at Raspberry Island (or Devils Island) dock with picnickers on shore. The "Lizzie W' and Nelson Angus, A.G. Hull, Elsie Tough... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Picnic on Michigan Island beach at Apostle Island, Lake Superior. From left to right are Mrs. Chute, Mrs. Webb, Fritzie Chute (F.H. Chute, Minnepolis), A.G... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group of people setting up for a picnic on a beach at Apostle Island. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women standing on Basswood Island Dock. Bill Baker, Elizabeth Hull, Florence Baker, Dorothy Stickney Ross, Louise Baker, Hamilton N. Ross ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Oliver Wilson, Leo Capser, and Jesse Stone, all wearing hats, pose for a group portrait. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Indian "pow-wow" and lacrosse contest between various reservations. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | This map shows swamps, railroads, rivers, roads, the Catholic Mission Reserve, the day school, and the Agency Reserve. Lake Superior is labeled. An inset m... |
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