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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Main Buildings as seen from Oneida Cottage, State Sanatorium, Statesan, Wis." A view of the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene near Stetsonville, Wis." A man follows a herd of sheep through a pasture bounded by a split rail fence with supports. In the di... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Paper Mill Road, Showing Plover Paper Mill, Stevens Point, Wis." View of an unpaved road leading to a paper mill on the Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 07 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rustic Cottage at Frazier Lodge, on Sand Lake Highways 70 and 27, Near Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wis." On reverse it reads: "Lodge a... |
| Date: | 02 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'At the Turn of the Road' Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wisconsin." Scene of autumn color on the road leading into Potowatomi S... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Picture Rock at the Ledges, Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wisconsin." A sailboat on Sturgeon Bay seen between a rock formation ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point from Tower, Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wis." Elevated view across Sawyer Harbor towards Stur... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Cherry Blossoms, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Thousands of acres of cherry and apple blossoms burst into bloom during the la... |
| Date: | 07 04 1927 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Orchard Scene, Cherry Trees in Bloom, Door County, Wis." Elevated view of a cherry orchard with farm buildings. There are wooded hill... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Moe Museum & Old Country School - (Hy N. North) Sun Prairie, Wis. Visitors Welcome on Sunday afternoon 1 to 4 P.M.-May 1 to Sept. 15.... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "On Highway 13. Scenic Old Mill. This picturesque windmill is seen along the beautiful South Shore Drive, Hiway [number struck out w... |
| Date: | 07 20 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Superior." A scene of sheep grazing in a pasture backed by trees. The postcard is positioned inside a painted wooden f... |
| Date: | 08 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Big Manitou Falls, Ht. 165 Ft., Pattison State Park, Superior, Wis." The falls are on the Black River and surrounded by shrubs and ro... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Fishermans Shack, Wis Point, Superior Wis." A man peers around the corner of his tar paper covered fishing shack on Wisconsin Point. ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: Pop's Pine Resort, Virgin Lake, Three Lakes, Wis." A large clapboard building with many windows and a long enclosed porch. There is la... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Northernaire, Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Open Year 'Round." View of Northernaire Resort, on Deer Lake, an Art Moderne hotel built in 1... |
| Date: | 09 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Northernaire Showboat Waterfront." Text on reverse reads: "Northernaire – Open Year-'Round. Three Lakes, Wisconsin." There are two im... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Indian Canoe" and "Greetings from Tomah, Wis." On reverse: "Camp of berry-pickers, man, wife, and children. Camp site on a beautiful ... |
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