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Witches' Gulch Tourist Stand

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Description: Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond.
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Tourists at Dells Landing

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Description: Unidentified group of tourists going to Dells Landing. There are horse-drawn vehicles beyond.
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Wisconsin Tourism Sign

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Description: Group of resort and hotel owners gathered in front of a Wisconsin tourism sign that reads: "Relax In Wisconsin." There is a building in the background.
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Black Earth Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
Photograph

Tour Car

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Description: View from street looking toward a touring car filled with tourists outside of a building lobby with a roof over the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Seeing Kansas...
Photograph

Tourist Camp - Highway 12

Date: 1931
Description: A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1973
Description: Color postcard of Main Street from porch on building at Stonefield Village. A horse bus with tourists is in the street.
Photograph

The Birchcliff Hotel

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Description: Exterior view across lawn of the main building of the Birchcliff Hotel. A porch is in the front, and a screened-in porch is on the right side. Chairs are o...
Print

M.S. Kungsholm Dinner Menu

Date: 01 13 1934
Description: Handwritten menu and "Bon Voyage" greeting in a card from the Swedish American Line, with a Swedish castle on the cover, and on the inside of the card, a t...
Photograph

Beloit Tourist Center

Date: 1967
Description: View through a car windshield towards the Beloit tourist center. A family of four is walking towards the building. A phone booth is nearby on the left.
Photograph

Beloit Tourism Center

Date: 1967
Description: View of the Beloit Tourism Center. Women and children are walking to and from the building. A child is drinking from an outdoor water-fountain (bubbler) on...
Photograph

Boy and Girl Filling Water Jug from Bubbler

Date: 1967
Description: A boy and a girl are filling a jug of water from the water-fountain (bubbler) outside of the Beloit tourism center.
Poster

Arras

Date: 1920
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Arras, with ruins of large buildings. Text reads: "Arras. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemin de...
Postcard

Vacationland Farm

Date: 1963
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Vacationland Farm, Hwy. 57, S. Sister Bay, Wis. 54234. Farm Petting Zoo * Riding Stables * Pony Ring Game Room * Gift Shop. Excelle...
Postcard

The Highlands

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Text on the front reads: "The Highlands, Hy. 41 and 20, 21 miles south of Milwaukee, P.O. Sturtevant, Wis. - Phone: 18W." Additional text on the reverse: "...
Postcard

Bird's-eye View of Riverview Service Group

Date: 1935
Description: Text on front reads: "Bird's-eye View of Riverview Service Group, Looking East, At The Dells, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." On reverse: "All the world knows...

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