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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mammoth Ore Docks, Ashland, Wis." A building and roads are in the foreground. Several ore ships can be seen. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Grassy Island Lighthouse, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the club house. Boats are along the shoreline. Caption reads: "Chicago Club House on Lake Court O'Reilles, Near Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Tivoli Island. There is a smokestack and a building among trees in the distance. Caption reads: "Tivoli Island, Watertown, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the coast guard station from the water with multiple sailors lined up near the shore. Caption reads: "Coast Guard Station, Sturgeon Bay, Door Count... |
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| Description: | Old boat yards, with numerous steamboats, and buildings on the shoreline. Caption reads: "Old Boat Yards, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the rock formation called the Devil's Doorway in Devil's Lake State Park. Trees can be seen below. The lake, bluffs, roads and buildi... |
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| Description: | View across the lower dam and bridges near the far shoreline along the Fox River. A tall building is in the background on the right. Caption reads: "The Lo... |
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| Description: | View across the lower dam on the Fox River. Bridges are near the far shoreline, and a tall building is in the distance on the right. Caption reads: "Lower ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a group of people gathered at the shoreline of a lake. One group is launching a boat near the shore. Another group is in a sm... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across top of the Pecatonica River dam towards the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "The Dam at Darlington, Wis." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | This blueprint map shows the harbor at Kenosha, also showing buildings surrounding the harbor, roads, and railroads. Original caption in red states: "Areas... |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the bath house at the lake front, seen from along a stony shoreline. Caption reads: "New Bath House, Fond du Lac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a stone pedestrian bridge on a river. The city skyline is in the distance. Caption reads: "Strollers Bridge, Grand Rapids, Wis.... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye view of Appleton Wisconsin. In the foreground are people fishing, strolling, and looking over the canal towards the Fox River. Streets and buildi... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a footbridge across the Rock River. People are standing on the bridge. Caption reads: "The Little Red Bridge, Jefferson, Wis." |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the railroad bridge over the Wisconsin River at Kilbourn. A canoe is along the shoreline in the foreground, and excursion boats ... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Fold-out map of the zoo inside a publication titled: "Henry Vilas Park Zoo: An Instructive Book on the Origin and Habits of Animals." Includes Lake Wingra,... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of a small community on the shore of Lake Superior. |
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