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Misty Morning

Date: 1956
Description: The Amelia-D is docked at a pier on Green Bay. The shoreline and clouds are in the background. A sailboat and motorboat are moored in the distance.
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Peninsula State Park

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Description: View of Green Bay through the trees from Peninsula State Park.

Stamped on reverse: "From Good Roads Association of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin."

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Winter Road

Date: 1952
Description: Winter view of a lake shore road in Peninsula State park. Fresh snow covers the road and trees.
Postcard

White Gull Inn

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Description: Color photographic postcard of the White Gull Inn. Three entrances are on the porch. A balcony is across the front. Text on reverse reads: "White Gull I...
Postcard

"Proud Mary" Est. 1887

Date: 1887
Description: Black and white illustration of the Proud Mary Hotel (now the Whistling Swan).
Postcard

The Dam on Fish Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View upriver towards the dam on Fish Creek. There is a small building on the left bank just above the dam.
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Wharf at Fish Creek

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier....
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The Buchbinder Residence

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Description: Dr. Jacob R. Buchbinder House was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #244 in 1939. Jacob Buchbinder was a doctor of medicine in Ch...
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Riding Bikes at Peninsula State Park

Date: 1967
Description: A family of three is biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bike with her father.
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Family Bike Ride

Date: 1967
Description: View from behind of a family of three biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bicycle with the father.
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Family Riding Bikes

Date: 1967
Description: A family of three is biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bike with the father.
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Eagle Bluff Lighthouse

Date: 1969
Description: Three children and two adults are stand and sitting around an elderly man wearing a ship captains hat. He is holding a wooden model of a ship. The group of...
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Outside the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse

Date: 1967
Description: Three children sitting outdoors around an elderly man. The man is wearing a ship captains hat and is holding a wooden model of a ship in his lap. The group...
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Inside Eagle Bluff Lighthouse

Date: 1967
Description: A family of five is climbing up the spiral stairs of the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse. The young boy in the lead is leaning down and offering a high five.
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Weborg Point

Date: 1910
Description: View along shoreline of Weborg Point before the area became Peninsula State Park. Green Bay is on the left. Two wood buildings are along the shoreline in t...
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After the Hunt

Date: 1920
Description: Two unidentified young men pose in the snow with their firearms behind seven dead rabbits displayed on a barbed wire fence; there are three dogs on the oth...
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View of Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: View down hill towards a man fishing from the pier at Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek is seen across the bay. Dr. Welcker's Casino is the ...
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Hen Island

Date: 1915
Description: Hen Island is reflected in the water of Fish Creek Bay in this view from Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. The homes and businesses of Fish Creek are i...
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View of Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: View of Fish Creek from Weborg's Point in Peninsula State Park. The Fish Creek dock with barnlike warehouse is in center right. Behind the dock is the two-...
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Nelson Point

Date: 1915
Description: Wildflowers bloom on the rocky shore of Weborg Point in Peninsula State Park, with Nelson Point in the background. A low pier extends from the point.

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