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Schwartz House Exterior

Date: 1939
Description: Schwartz house exterior with a car parked under the carport.
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Schwartz House Exterior

Date: 1939
Description: Schwartz house exterior with trees in the background.
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Schwartz House Exterior

Date: 1939
Description: Schwartz house exterior with trees in the front.
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Schwartz House Exterior

Date: 1939
Description: Schwartz house exterior with a pickup truck parked next to it.
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Berner's Ice Cream Parlor

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Description: View across road towards E.C. Berner's Ice Cream Parlor, where the first ice cream sundae is said to have been made in 1881. A woman is standing behind the...
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Two Rivers State Park Area Slough

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Description: Back of card reads:

"One of the Everglade appearing sloughs running along for miles parallel with the Lake Michigan shore — This view seen from the park ...

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Four Men at Point Beach State Forest

Date: 06 1958
Description: These four men from Wisconsin's Forests and Parks Department will retire in July 1958. C.L. (Neal) Harrington is second from the right.

A new retirement ...

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Boathouse

Date: 1940
Description: A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ...
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Twin River Point Lighthouse

Date: 1940
Description: A log gate and log-framed sign mark the entrance to the Twin River (Rawley) Point lighthouse. The keeper's house is next to the light and has a turret and ...
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Horses at Point Beach State Forest

Date: 1940
Description: Nine unidentified men and women on horseback are posing in front of the lodge at Point Beach State Forest. A young girl wearing a swimming suit is sitting ...
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At the Shelter House

Date: 1940
Description: An unidentified woman is posing sitting on the sand and looking toward Lake Michigan. The newly built shelter house, with its large windowed bay and massiv...
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Sand Dune

Date: 04 1938
Description: View across standing water in a swale at the foot of a large sand dune. A tall, leafless tree is reflected in the pools. The dune appears to have engulfed ...
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Historymobile Visitors

Date: 09 17 1955
Description: Vistors entering and exiting the Wisconsin Historical Society Historymobile parked at Point Beach State Park.
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Lonely Lighthouse

Date: 1952
Description: Rawley Point Lighthouse, located in the Point Beach State Forest. It is 111 feet tall.
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Migrant Children's First Communion

Date: 1954
Description: Catholic clergymen and nuns pose with a group of migrant children on the event of their first communion.

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