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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built about 1803 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porlier... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Jeremiah Curtin house located at 8685 West Grange Avenue. This stone and stucco residence was erected in the mid-1830s by Irish immigrants Davi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Building used as a lodging house for the First Territorial Legislature held in Belmont in 1836. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A log gate and log-framed sign mark the entrance to the Twin River (Rawley) Point lighthouse. The keeper's house is next to the light and has a turret and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the dining room in the shelter house at Point Beach State Forest. There are sturdy log picnic tables set with glasses, silverware and tablecloths... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the dining room at Point Beach State Forest. Tables are arranged in a "U" formation and are set with silverware, glasses and tablecloths. The rus... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bandana on her head is sitting at a picnic table talking with another woman who is standing in front of a tent-style camping trailer. Bot... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A display by the Wisconsin Conservation Department erected in a large tent extols the value of smoking fish for food. There are posters identifying differe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman and girl are posing on the drive leading to a brick house behind mature pines. The house was built in the 1890's by General Walter Ca... |
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