Hoist Bay, Namakan Lake where the Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company loaded its logs, ca. 1920.

A sleigh load of white pine logs about to be tripped, Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, ca. 1920.

Gappa Landing, on Lake Kabetogama, Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Company, ca. 1920.

Virginia and Rainy Lake Company locomotive, ca. 1915.

Virginia and Rainy Lake Mill, Virginia, ca. 1910.

Camp for workers laying tracks for the Virginia and Rainy Lake Railway north of Virginia, 1902.

Virginia and Rainy Lake Lumber Camp 39, about one mile north of Echo Lake, ca. 1916. Visible are the root house (in the foreground, next to the office) and the filling shack.

A bumper sticker (created in 1975) proclaiming Minnesota-brewed beer, including Hamm’s and Schmidt’s—founded by Theodore Hamm’s one-time friend and business competitor.

A souvenir totem pole, created ca. 1970, with a depiction of the Hamm’s bear. This piece is a good example of Hamm’s Brewing Company’s use of generic and often inaccurate Indigenous iconography in its advertising. Although this object was made by an Ojibwe family, totem-pole carving is not an Anishinaabe tradition; the art form is practiced by Indigenous groups on the West Coast of the United States and Canada, including the Haida, the Tlingit, and the Nuxalk.