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Sulpho-Saline Spring Pavilion

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Description: View of the Sulpho-Saline Spring Pavilion, built in 1917 according to the plans of George Kessler and architect Henry F. Hoit. A woman sits on a bench outs...
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The Excelsior Saline Water Company Office

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Description: Exterior of an office at the Excelsior Saline Water Company. Two United States flags mark the doorway, and benches line the exterior walls. On the front ...
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Pertle Springs and Bandstand

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Description: A view of a bandstand and Pertle Springs, an iron-rich spring whose name comes from William S. Purtle, the owner of the land in the early 1800's. A man sit...
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Administration Building and Reflecting Pool

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Description: Front view of the large, monumental Administration Building with a reflecting pool. Also known as the Simon Burach Building after the famed hydrotherapist,...
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Bedford Springs Hotel

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Description: A view of the magnesium spring at Bedford Springs Hotel, founded in 1806. A man pours water said to cure stomach ailments from the magnesium spring into a ...
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Massanetta Springs

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Description: View looking down into a covered shelter, built in the early 1900's, for Massanetta Springs. A group of people are sitting in the shelter which is in a cou...
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Wallace Bruce and Girl at Alpine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Wallace Bruce and a young girl rest at Alpine Park, near DeFuniak Springs. He is sitting on a well, and the girl is standing beside him under a covered she...
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Sanitarium Bath

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Description: View of a sanitarium bath near a pond at a sulphur spring. The waters were advertised to aid kidney and stomach troubles.
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Miller's Swimming Hole

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Description: A group of people bathe at Miller's Swimming Hole at Elk Springs. Three people prepare to dive into the water while others swim or sit on the rocks.
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Spring Near River Pine Sanitarium

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Description: View of a spring on the way to River Pine Sanitarium, which opened in 1906.
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Spring in Mitchell's Glen

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Description: Two men stand near a geological formation in Mitchell's Glen, formerly owned by S. D. Mitchell.
Postcard

Picnic Grounds at Spring, Blue Mounds

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Description: Photographic postcard of picnic grounds at a spring in Blue Mounds State Park. The spring is running out of a brick catch basin on the right. A woman weari...
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Pluto Spring Pavilion

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Description: View down wide walkway toward a group gathered outside the entrance to the Pluto Spring Pavillion in a a wooded area. In the foreground at right is an adve...
Map or Atlas

Indian Legend Map of Lake Mendota

Date: 1941
Description: Hand-drawn, watercolor and ink, map of Lake Mendota. Locations and many small figures appear around the shore with explanations referring to Indian legends...
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a street scene. The Jacumba Hot Springs are advertised on top of a building housing a drug store, bakery and confectionary, and D & B Res...
Document

Chippewa Springs Corporation Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Chippewa Springs Corporation of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, featuring the Chippewa Natural Spring Water logo of an American Indian man in ...
Map or Atlas

Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory : Situated on the South East Side of the Mound of the Same Name Near the River Mississippi.

Date: 1835
Description: Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established...
Map or Atlas

Bottomley Homestead and Its Surroundings

Date: 1918
Description: This map shows the property owned by Edwin Bottomley and others at the confluence of Eagle Creek with the Fox River in the Town of Rochester, Racine County...
Map or Atlas

Map of Portion of Dane County Showing First and Second Lakes

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Description: This 19th century manuscript map shows First Lake, Second Lake, streams, and sections in the towns of Dunn and Pleasant Springs, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

State Park Devil's Lake Wisconsin : Course in Plane Table Surveying

Date: 1923
Description: This topographical map of Devil's Lake State Park, Sauk County, Wisconsin, is based on 1922-1923 surveys of the area by the University of Wisconsin Summer ...

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