The Nation’s Largest Collection Of Lighthouse Bloopers

August, 2017

General List of Sources

Books

Danziger, Edmund Jefferson, Jr. The Chippewas of Lake Superior. University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

Holzhueter, John O. Madeline Island and the Chequamegon Region.  State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986.

Larson, Lars. Chequamegon Bay And Its Communities: A Brief History, 1659-1883. Priv. pub, 2005.

Warren, William. History of the Ojibway People.  Minnesota Historical Society Press, reprinted 1984.

Government Publications

Busch, Jane C. People and Places: a Human History of the Apostle Islands – Historic Resource Study of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. U.S. National Park Service, 2008.

Historic Structure Reports/Cultural Landscape Reports for Michigan Island, La Pointe, Raspberry Island, Outer Island, Sand Island, Devils Island Light Stations. U.S. National Park Service, 2003 – 2010.

Snyder, David L. A Compendium Of Written Communication Of The Light House Board For The Twelve Light Stations Of The Midwest Region, National Park Service, 1839-1881. Report compiled for U.S. National Park Service, 1992; on file at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield, Wis.

Cooper, David A. et al. “The Development of Maritime Industries and Lake Shipping in the Apostle Islands”  in 1990 Underwater Archaeological Investigations in the Apostle Islands. Wisconsin State Historical Society.

Other Sources

Administrative files, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Annual reports of U.S. Lighthouse Establishment. On file at National Archives, Washington DC; copies at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore web site

“Early Sailing on Lake Superior,” Inland Seas, Vol. 26, No 2. Summer 1970.

“Gustav Dalén – Inventor of Lighthouse Automation” AGA Journal, December 1937, reprinted in U.S. Lighthouse Society Keeper’s Log, Summer 2006.

Hill, Burt. “Memoir of Life on Sand Island” unpublished mss, 1944, on file at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Keepers’ logbooks for Michigan Island, La Pointe, Raspberry Island, Outer Island, Sand Island light stations. On file at National Archives, Washington DC; copies at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Oral history interviews on file at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Report of Inspection, Sand Island Light Station, Aug. 27, 1910. On file at National Archives, Washington DC; copies at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, Bayfield,Wisconsin.

Various editions of the Ashland Press, Ashland News, Washburn News, Washburn Times, and the Bayfield County Press, on file at Wisconsin State Historical Society archives, Ashland, Wisconsin.