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Drawing

Lakeside House

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Description: Illustration of the Lakeside House.
Postcard

Summer White House on the Brule

Date: 1926
Description: Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S...
Print

Chequamegon Hotel Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Chequamegon Hotel of Ashland, on Lake Superior, with a three-quarter view of the hotel, as seen from the waterfront, set into a cartouche...
Map or Atlas

Maps of Trude Lake

Date: 1925
Description: Shows buildings, piers, winter and summer levels, and resort lands. Depths shown by isolines. Relief shown by contours. From the E.P. Sherry papers relatin...
Postcard

Boat Landing, Schliewert's Island

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Description: Colorized postcard view over water towards boats and boaters at a resort. In the background are people and boats near a pier. The resort is among trees on ...
Postcard

View on Cranberry Lake at Everett's Resort

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards lakeside cabins among birch trees at the resort on Catfish Lake, east of Eagle River off of STH 70. There is a pier in the foregr...
Postcard

View of the Rosenheimer Resort, at Large Cedar Lake

Date: 1908
Description: Hand-colored view of Rosenheimer Resort from across Big Cedar Lake. The resort has a large main building with a wrap-around porch, and there is a dock and ...
Postcard

The Log Cabin

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Description: View from Delavan Lake of the "Log Cabin" resort on the shoreline. A long pier stretches from the shoreline off to the left. Caption reads: "The Log Cabin,...
Postcard

Pine Drive Resort

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Description: View across water towards a lakefront resort and boat landing. There are people in a few boats in the lake, and other boats tied up at piers. There is tave...
Postcard

Froelich's Sayner Lodge

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Froelich's Sayner Lodge, Sayner, Wisconsin. AAA. One of Northern Wisconsin's fine American Plan Resorts * Your choice of accommodat...
Postcard

Plum Lake

Date: 07 14 1956
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Plum Lake near Sayner Lodge, Sayner, Wis. Greetings - Eagle River, Wis." View of Plum Lake with a boathouse and piers at Sayner Lod...
Postcard

Camp Brooklyn

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Camp Brooklyn, Lake Kegonsa." One man and two women are boating on Lake Kegonsa. Cottages, trees and docks line the shore.
Postcard

The Pines

Date: 1920
Description: Text on front reads: "The Pines, Dells of the Wisconsin River." View from rocky shoreline towards the lodge at The Pines Resort, perched above the shore be...

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