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Filter: Subject of birds
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Early souvenir postcard showing people viewing the bird cages at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). Caption reads: "Interesting Scenes at the Vilas Park... |
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| Description: | A man is watching deer eating grass. There is also a turkey on the right. Caption reads: "Scene at Arcadia, Wis." |
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| Description: | View towards a flock of gulls flying along the rocky shoreline of Lake Michigan. A speed boat is traveling on the water on the left, and other boats are do... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | A view of Lake Michigan at sunrise, with an orange sky and gulls, ducks and a sailboat in silhouette. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a room with glass cases filled with taxidermied birds and a raccoon, and a crane on a pedestal. Caption reads: "Hoard Historical Museum, F... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A quarry of dead prairie chickens, hunting dogs, horses and buggies in tall grass. Caption reads: "Prairie Chickens, Hawkins, Wis." |
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| Description: | The Northwoods area, numbered K9GTQ, is highlighted yellow inside an outline of the shape of the state of Wisconsin. A muskie, a robin, a bear and a deer a... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a room in a log cabin resort. Planters and bird cages are in front of the windows. Caption reads: "Rohrbacher's Resort, Crawling Stone Lak... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a wall of mounted fish, deer and assorted stuffed birds. A display of postcards is on the left. There is a window on the righ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a wall covered with mounted bear and deer heads. Stuffed foxes, bobcats and raccoons on displayed on shelves. Prints of hunti... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Handwriting on front reads: "Greetings from Prairie Du Sac, Wis." and "Merry Christmas". A scene of a man on the shoreline of a river with a small boat. Sw... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Pine River." A river scene with a boat tied up to a birch tree on the left. Trees are on the shoreline. There are either two birds st... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "'Rock Ledge' Wisconsin's most picturesque gift shop located on the historical site at the Falls of the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan F... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "The Seamen's Memorial Statue, Barker's Island, Superior, WI. Facing the harbor holding a massive cable is the 10 foot tall Seamen's... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Swallows' Nests, Wisconsin Dells. Every summer hundreds of swallows make their homes in holes in the soft sandstone cliff." Rock fo... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Swallow's Nests, Dells of the Wisconsin." Rock formations on the shore of the Wisconsin River with trees growing above. Every summer ... |
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