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Recreation - Golf Clubs

Manners and Customs, Recreation, Sports, Ball Games, Golf, Buildings, Woody Plants, Trees Portage Lake Golf Club House [Exterior view of the club house.]

Scanned: July 1, 2009


Houghton Across Portage Lake

Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Water, Lakes, Buildings M.C.M. park creek bleow old dam church and school at Phoenix Mine, Quincy Smelter and Mine from Hill (Houghton Across Portage Lake). [View of the smelter taken from across the lake. The back end of the Dee building is visible along with several homes and a church.]

Scanned: July 13, 2009


Traffic - Portage Lake Bridge

Transportation, Bridges, Transportation, Automotive, Cars stopped at Portage Lake Bridge, single file line up. [A number of vintage autos (some with rumble seats) are stopped on the bridge.]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Buildings - Heating

Seasons, Winter, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Unloading coal into house from sleigh down coal shoot to basement. [A man shovels coal down a coal shoot from a large bin on a sleigh drawn by two horses.]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Eagle River Dam

Water, Lakes, Earthwork, Dams, Woody Plants, Trees Dam at Eagle River with a slight view of reservior. [View of dam. Water flows into an upper and lower "crater".]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Transportation - Ice Roads

Water, Lakes, Seasons, Winter, Transportation Ice road over Portage Lake, looking at Houghton, one sleigh. [A man with his large sleigh and team of horses travel over the frozen lake.]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Stamp battery at Cliff after the fire. [View of equipment after the fire.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Monuments - Douglass Houghton

Sign and Signboards, Historical markers, Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Fenced in Douglass Houghton Mounument Eagle River. [Image of the stone tribute in memory of Douglass Houghton, the first State geologist.]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Monuments - Pythias Shrine

Sign and Signboards, Historical markers, Woody Plants, Trees, Persons Eagle River, Phoenix Bete Gris Pythias Shrine Monument . [Two men in knickers visit the stone monument. Inscription on plaque too difficult to read.]

Scanned: June 30, 2009


Fires - Isle Royale Mill

Accidents, Fires, Buildings, Persons Isle Royale Mill after fire of Dec. 24. 1914 at 11:30 p.m. [A man sits on what appears to be a tool chest and looks at the aftermath of the blaze.]

Scanned: July 24, 2008