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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A large building, possibly a mill, next to a river. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, G.W. Hill, docked with its gangplank lowered and no one on deck. Later named Island Maid. There is a bridge in the bac... |
| Date: | 07 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Driver in an International delivery truck parked along the waterfront with the Queensboro Bridge in the background. The truck was owned by Joseph Victori &... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Map of Oneida County-Rhinelander Airport which was laid out at the county fairgrounds. The map appears on the reverse side of a letter Roy Larson received ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Marling Lumber Company, 1801 East Washington Avenue. The Yahara River is to the right, with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 10 13 1927 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of outlet of Lake Mendota near Tenney Park and Yahara River. |
| Date: | 10 15 1927 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of outlet of Lake Mendota near Tenney Park and Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in... |
| Date: | 04 20 1929 |
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| Description: | Railroad tracks and waterway outside International Harvester's Deering Works. The Deering Works was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town with river. The clipping from a newspaper has a description titled: "Seeing Wisconsin From an Airplane". |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Sign for the toll road at Big Smoky Falls on the Wolf River. The sign reads: "Big Smoky Falls of the Wolf River. Many years ago before 1925 there was no ro... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of old bridge, river and buildings in downtown Black Falls River in the winter. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge over the Black River during construction. It was built during 1923 and 1924 by the Wausau Iron Works. Tom Cleary was the Resident... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The gorge of the Bad River below Brownstone Falls. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Site where the first French trading post in Wisconsin was built at the fork of the Fond du Lac River in 1787. The site is located near the city's gas plant... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the conluence of the Fox River and the East River. The Northern Paper Mills are in the foreground and the city is seen to the right. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Green Bay's commercial district, bridges, and water. |
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