Camping trip at Isle Royale--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 3

95-40.0003
Dassler, Lee Collection
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1934 – 1935
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reel 3: bull moose swimming across calm lake water; exits onto wooded shoreline; boy, an eldery man, and a young woman fishing for 'muskie' from a rowboat on Lake Superior bay waters; pulling fish onboard by use of a 'gaff'; wooded shoreline in background; ducks and loon on bay waters; tents, camping on wooded island; young woman organizes camp cookware on rustic table; rocky, cascading brook; boy and two men wearing mosquito netting explore along streamside; bull moose running/swimming through shallow marsh water; overgrown abandoned mine site; family walks along old mining road, explores mineshaft entrance; mounds of mine tailings; family sitting atop rocky promontory; sweeping panoramic view of wooded, hilly landscape; boy and young woman picking and eating blueberries; man and woman break camp, dismantle tents supported by fir poles; Reel ends with sunset over open water; wooded island in background; steamship in silouette passes across frame.

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