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Title
Foster City residents returning from Norway Lake
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Sawmills

Subject
Cities and towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a077

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of Foster City residents returning from a picnic at Norway Lake. The cone-shaped sawdust burner from the Morgan Lumber and Cedar Company's sawmill can be seen in the distance between the heads of the two horses at the left. Houses on Boarding House Hill can also be seen in the background with the little schoolhouse barely visible at the upper right.

Foster City residents returning from Norway Lake

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