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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the town of Wisconsin Dells, the dam on the Wisconsin River, and the generating plant. The town of Wisconsin Dells was known as Kilbourn Cit... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells including the Wisconsin River and the dam and generating power plant. |
| Date: | 10 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of women dressed festively and comically for a party. From left to right in the back row are Evaline Bennett, Blanche Foster, Edith Whitney, Rena P... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Helene Greenwood and Jean Dyer pose wearing hats and long dresses at the Bowman Park dedication. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Corner of Broadway and Superior, with Texaco station and Olson Boat Ticket kiosk. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The skipper guides the motor launch Miss Helen on the Wisconsin River in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man in Native American clothing is standing on the ledge near Stand Rock. Two women are watching from the ground below. |
| Date: | 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Typewritten playbill for the puppet show "Ocean Treasure" written and produced by Miriam Bennett. |
| Date: | 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Marionettes made by Miriam Bennett used in the production of "Ocean Treasure," a puppet show written and produced by Miriam Bennett. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior of a living room at Walmar Lodge. The room includes: wood and wicker chairs, a piano, a fireplace, a bookshelf, a desk, a rug and a lamp. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man and four women pose at the exterior of a log cabin with a "chateau" sign over the entrance. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor scene at the Dells Farm Resort. Five people pose while seated on lawn furniture outside the cabin. Another woman poses as she is about to hit a cro... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map from the first half of the 20th century shows the landmarks, highways, rail lines, and cities and villages in the vicinity of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This 1935 map shows the Wisconsin River from a point approximately 4 miles south of the city of Wisconsin Dells north to Duck Creek in Adams County. Sectio... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells." |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of a group of women and one man. The guests of the hotel are relaxing under the trees on the lawn of the resort. A man and a woman are hol... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman with a toddler looks out of the entrance to a birch wigwam. In the foreground is a campfire with cooking pots and pails. There is tent in t... |
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