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Steensland Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline towards the Steensland Bridge with a boat and passengers passing beneath. Caption reads: "Steensland Bridge, Madison, Wis."
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Pike River and Middle Street Bridge

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Description: The Middle Street bridge over the Pike River. Caption reads: "Pike River & Middle St. Bridge, Kenosha, Wis."
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Toll Bridge on Wisconsin River

Date: 1910
Description: This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1...
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Concrete Foot Bridge, Lake Park

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view over trees and bushes toward the footbridge. A building with a red roof is on the far right. Beyond the bridge is Lake Michigan. Caption read...
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Ravine Drive in Lake Park

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Description: View down curving road lined with flowering bushes toward a bridge in Lake Park. Lake Michigan is in the distance, with a ship at the horizon. Caption read...
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Old Clarance Bridge

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Description: Colorized postcard view of the Old Clarance Bridge, a covered bridge. Text in red in the upper right corner reads: "Old Clarance Bridge, Brodhead, Wis."
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The Fern Garden in Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Colorized image of the wooden walkway at the fern garden in Cold Water Canyon. Caption reads: "The Fern Garden in Cold Water Canyon, Wisconsin Dells, Wis."
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Bridge at Foot of Mirror Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards wooden buildings on the left and right, and a bridge over the foot of Mirror Lake. There is a woman in a rowboat on the lake in t...
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Chippewa Falls, Wis. Bridge, Crossing the Chippewa River

Date: 1910
Description: A colorized view from shoreline of the steel beam bridge, with five sections and five bridge pylons. The bridge was downstream from the rapids on Main stre...
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Bridge and Rocky Scenery at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: View of a bend in Duncan Creek with a bridge, trees, a quarried rock face and road in Irvine Park (probably the "Bear Cage Road"). Caption reads: "Bridge a...
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Dells of the Chippewa River by Moonlight

Date: 1910
Description: View of the dells on the Chippewa river. The night view shows a wooden walkway along the base of the cliff leading toward a railroad bridge across the rive...
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Wisconsin School for the Deaf

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Description: Elevated view of a river with grassy and tree-lined banks. The Wisconsin School for the Deaf is on a hill in the far distance beyond a bridge over the rive...
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The Yahara River Between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of the Yahara River, with a path running along the shoreline on the left, and a bridge in the distance. Boats are docked near ...
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Foot Bridge in Tenney Park

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Description: View from lawn towards the arched foot bridge and drive at Tenney Park. A young man is standing on the bridge. Caption reads: "Foot Bridge in Tenney Park, ...
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Fish Hatchery

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Description: Illustration of a fish hatchery on the Mississippi River. A steamboat is on the left near a bridge. Caption reads: "Fish Hatchery, La Crosse, Wis."
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In the State Park

Date: 07 19 1917
Description: View of a small foot bridge over a stream. This postcard was sent to a Miss M.S. Fester at the State Historical Library, who donated it on May 2, 1918. On ...
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A Yuletide Greeting

Date: 1910
Description: A Christmas greeting postcard with an illustration of a winter scene of a woman standing in the snow near a bridge, framed by a wreath of holly and berries...
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Lower Dam, Mayville, Wis.

Date: 1908
Description: View from shoreline looking toward a dam and bridge on the Rock River near Mayville. Two men are standing on the bridge. Caption reads: "Lower Dam, Mayvill...
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St. Jude's Chapel

Date: 1963
Description: Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed....

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