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Rocky Roost

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Description: View across Lake Mendota of Rocky Roost, also known as the Lamp Cottage, located west of Governor's Island.
Photograph

Rocky Roost

Date: 1905
Description: Rocky Roost, the Lamp family cottage, located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota, decorated for a party. Shown from the left are Matilda Lamp Lueder...
Map or Atlas

City of Appleton Plat Map

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Description: Plat map of the east central part of the city.
Photograph

Doty Loggery

Date: 1910
Description: Doty's Loggery. Caption printed under image reads: "Governor James Duane Doty, in 1845, built this log house on Doty's Island (Menasha), and resided there ...
Photograph

Roberts' Resort

Date: 1965
Description: Roberts' Resort on Doty Island.
Photograph

View from Bluffs

Date: 1910
Description: View from the bluffs in or near McGregor, Iowa. A fence and trees are in the foreground.
Photograph

Mushu Island

Date: 10 22 1943
Description: View across water of Mushu Island in the distance. There is a ship in the foreground, an airplane above, and the appearance of explosions in the water.
Painting

View of La Pointe, Madeline, Wisconsin

Date: 1842
Description: American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape...
Postcard

Peninsula State Park

Date: 1954
Description: View looking west from Eagle Bluff toward Nicolet Bay, the Strawberry Islands, and Chambers Island. Three people are sitting on the stone wall of the overl...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary and Michilimakinac

Date: 1761
Description: A plan of the Straits of St. Mary and Michilimakinac, to shew the situation and importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. ...
Photograph

Panama-Pacific Exposition Grounds

Date: 10 20 1914
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Grounds. Numbers across bottom of image refer to a key affixed to the image. Central building s...
Photograph

Outer Island Lighthouse

Date: 1950
Description: Lighthouse on Outer Island of the Apostle Islands.
Photograph

Thordarson Estate

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Description: Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches.
Photograph

First Girls Party on Beach

Date: 09 07 1927
Description: Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island.
Photograph

Lighthouse Stairs and Dock

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Description: The stairs and dock at the lighthouse on Rock Island.
Photograph

Log Cabin

Date: 1914
Description: Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch.
Photograph

Thordarson Garden Entrance

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Description: The entrance to the garden framed by a decorative wooden gate.
Photograph

Thordarson Garden Fish Pond

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Description: Chester Thordarson stands in his garden with a friend near the fish pond, which has a fountain.
Postcard

Steamboat on Mississippi River

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Description: Elevated view over trees toward a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis."
Postcard

Rocky Roost

Date: 1913
Description: Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso...

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