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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two little girls kneel before an altar that is holding statues and a creche. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | As part of an Easter tableau, a statue of Mary Magdalene at the entrance to what is a depiction of Jesus' tomb, is mirrored by a young girl in similar garb... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | An architect's model of Fort Dells. This is not an accurate historical reconstruction, but was built as a tourist attraction. There was never an actual for... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells. The wing of the airplane is in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View looking over Fort Dells, with cars parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Phelps and Ruth Bennett Dyer have lunch in the office at the Bennett Studio as Miriam Bennett looks on. |
| Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Six men pose in front of trucks loaded with Wisconsin Dells' local land/water vehicles known as the Ducks. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | A row of girls and young women twirling batons in downtown Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lower Dells boats and docks covered with pollution from the paper mills up north. |
| Date: | 09 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Sign burning for the Dells Pioneer Village, with Jerry and Mary Claire. |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Mr. Hall posing with large fish in front of Hall's Motel. |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Couple standing with dinosaur in Prehistoric Land, owned by Charles Van Wie. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the entrance to Fort Dells with cars parked in parking lot. |
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