Cannon Falls' citizens organized a defense against further fire following the 1887 disaster, the community's second devastating blaze. Local firefighters pose in front of their headquarters.

The interior of the Great Hall at Grand Portage which was used as a museum, ca. 1940. The museum included small objects recovered as part of archaeological investigations of the site. Initially, the Great Hall also included a gift shop and cafe. Most of the museum’s contents were destroyed in a 1969 fire.

An early trip to what is now the Boundary Waters Canoe area, ca. 1916.

Canoeists from Camp Thunderbird at Moose Lake Landing, an entrance to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the Kawishiwi Ranger District of the Superior National Forest. Photograph (R9_485431) by P. Freeman Heim, August 1957. Used courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina. CC BY-SA 2.0