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Raspberry Island

Date: 1913
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...
Photograph

Beach Picnic at Michigan Island

Date: 1918
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...
Photograph

Group of People at Apostle Island

Date: 1915
Description: Group of people setting up for a picnic on a beach at Apostle Island.
Photograph

Oliver Wilson, Leo Casper, and Jesse Stone

Date: 1918
Description: Oliver Wilson, Leo Capser, and Jesse Stone, all wearing hats, pose for a group portrait.
Photograph

Annuity Payment at La Pointe

Date: 1870
Description: Indians receiving payment. Seated on the right is John W. Bell. Others are, left to right, Asaph Whittlesey, Agent Henry C. Gilbert, and William S. Warren ...
Photograph

Group on Basswood Island Dock

Date: 1917
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 ...
Photograph

Indian "Pow-Wow"

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Indian "pow-wow" and lacrosse contest between various reservations.
Map or Atlas

Map of Bad River Indian Reservation

Date: 1911
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...
Photograph

Apostle Island Picnic Outing

Date: 1925
Description: Group of eight adults getting in or out of a boat on an Apostle Island beach.
Photograph

Quarry on Basswood Island

Date: 1915
Description: Bill Baker standing on top of a wall of the quarry on Basswood Island.
Painting

Chief Buffalo

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Chief Buffalo, over-painted enlargement, possibly from a double-portrait (possibly an ambrotype). Grandson of Great Chief Buffalo. Chief Buffa...
Photograph

Four Girls in Dresses

Date: 1913
Description: Four young girls posing in dresses. Louise Lock, Louise Baker, Elizabeth Baker, and Elizabith Nesbit (Mrs. S.C. Marty, SR.)
Photograph

Mrs. Saxon and Horse Trixie

Date: 1919
Description: Mrs. Saxon in buggy with umbrella being pulled by her horse named Trixie.
Photograph

Picnickers in Pavilion

Date: 1890
Description: Pavilion with posed group of picnickers on one of the Apostle Islands.
Photograph

Apostle Island Picnic

Date: 
Description: Group having a picnic on the shore of an Apostle Island. There is a large sailboat behind the group.
Photograph

Boathouse for Devils Island Light Station

Date: 1913
Description: Boathouse, dock and boat at Devils Island Light Station. Bill Baker, Elsie Tough, and Captain Angus.
Photograph

People Seated in front of Hermitage

Date: 1910
Description: Group of men, women, and children seated on a bench and on the ground outside the Hermitage (Cedar Bark Lodge) on Hermit Island (Wilson Island). Included a...
Painting

View of La Pointe, Madeline, Wisconsin

Date: 1842
Description: American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape...
Postcard

Old Mission Inn

Date: 
Description: The Old Mission Inn, originally built as a mission house in 1832 by the Congregational mission established by Frederick Ayer in 1830. In later years furthe...
Photograph

The Pines Hotel on Madeline Island

Date: 1938
Description: View from road of two-story white hotel with a screen porch; a sign advertising "The Pines" is attached onto two pine trees in front of the hotel.

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