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1/4 barrel wooden box used for shipping fresh cranberries ca 1945-1960s - Eatmor Cranberries was an early marketing brand for fresh fruit. Not included: wooden lids
Box, Storage

Record Type: Object
21 arrowheads engraved with HH. ca 1950s
Arrowhead

Record Type: Object
Ashtray from Hughes' 30-30 Lodge ca 1970s
Ashtray

Record Type: Object
Ax from Camp Mercer CCC 1934-1940 - From Camp Mercer project superintendent, Bill Summers. The ax case was purchased by MWHS.
Ax

Record Type: Object
Blacksmith's (or toy) shovel found in 2021 at old logging camp on Fawn Lake ca 1900-1915
Shovel, Blacksmith's

Record Type: Object
Boat traffic ticket for speeding in the channel 7/14/1965 - It appears the boat patrol officer was using carbon receipt books from LaPorte's Super Market to issue tickets.
Ticket, Traffic

Record Type: Object
CCC Camp Mercer 660th Company shirt patches. ca 1934-1938
Patch, Insignia

Record Type: Object
CCC Camp Mercer enrollee wool cap. 1935-1936 - This cap belonged to enrollee Edward Radosevich.
Cap, Military

Record Type: Object
Cabin key tag from Win-Mar Resort 1930s-1961 - Brass plated steel key tag.
Key

Record Type: Object
Cabin key tags from Pea Patch Resort 1961-1979 - Made of plastic.
Key

Record Type: Object
Clamp possibly from the logging era ca 1900-1915
Clamp

Record Type: Object
Cranberry barrel labels used for shipping fresh cranberries in wooden boxes. ca 1945-1960s - The labels would be pasted onto a short side of the wooden shipping box. The cranberry grower "packing" or shipping the cranberries would note their packer number on the label. The names on the labels are for the different cultivated varieties of cranberries.
Label, Identification

Record Type: Object
Cranberry vine planting tool ca 1945-1975 - Specialty hand tool used for spudding or pushing cranberry vine cuttings into the soil to plant a new cranberry bed. This is a "double" planter.
Planter

Record Type: Object
Cranberry vine planting tool ca 1945-1975 - Specialty hand tool used for spudding or pushing cranberry vine cuttings into the soil to plant a new cranberry bed. This is a "single" planter.
Planter

Record Type: Object
Double bitted ax head from logging camp on Fawn Lake ca 1900-1915
Ax

Record Type: Object
End cap of a drive shaft possibly from a sawmill from the logging and lumber days. ca 1900-1925
Shaft, Drive

Record Type: Object
Five identical three-wing (or blade) arrowheads engraved with HH. ca 1950s
Arrowhead

Record Type: Object
Folsom Cranberry Co wooden sign 1941-2002
Sign, Informational

Record Type: Object
Framed pillowcase or sham embroidered with a poem to camp enrollee's parents and "Son Frank Co. 660 C.C.C. Manitowish Wis" ca 1935 - Frank Weister gave this pillow sham to his parents. He was an enrollee at Camp Mercer CCC. He built trials, bridges and buildings and was an all around worker.
Pillowcase

Record Type: Object
Giclee print of painting done by Frances Badger. Depicts Ojibwa people harvesting wild rice on Rice Creek near Big Lake. 1930s - Ms. Badger spent summers at her family's estate on Big Lake beginning as a young girl in 1908. In the 1930s she was an artist employed by Franklin D. Roosevelts's Work Projects Administration (WPA) to paint murals of "American Life".
Print

Record Type: Object