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Police Search & Rescue Plane Lands on Brittingham Bay

Date: 02 08 1961
Description: E.H. Lansdowne, 2910 Stevens Street (R), a city fireman at Station No. 4, and Tom Fawcett, 6104 Bridge Road, pilot, stand next to the Madison Police Depart...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Washburn

Date: 09 1918
Description: An insurance map of Washburn, with an index and a key. Includes a small inset map of the State of Wisconsin that shows "Location of this town as above unde...
Map or Atlas

Map of Interborough Rapid Transit System, Front

Date: 1923
Description: Color map of the "Interborough Rapid Transit System of Greater New York".
Postcard

Northernaire

Date: 1963
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Northernaire, Three Lakes, WI 54562. Phone 715 – 546-3331. The Resort Hotel that has it all." Aerial view of Northernaire Resort, o...
Postcard

John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort

Date: 08 05 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "John Schuch's Donges Bay Resort." A man stands on a trail, gazing over shrubs at a bay on Lake Michigan. The shoreline is surrounded ...
Postcard

Donges Bay Boat House

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Donges Bay Boat House." A man rowing a boat with two women passengers, in front of a boathouse built of rocks. A lawn jockey stands o...
Postcard

Donges Bay

Date: 07 25 19011
Description: Text on front reads: "John Schuchs, The only natural Pine Grove within a 100 Miles of this City. The Grandest and Finest Ravines, at Donges Bay, and Fairy ...
Postcard

The Seamen's Memorial Statue

Date: 1978
Description: Text on reverse reads: "The Seamen's Memorial Statue, Barker's Island, Superior, WI. Facing the harbor holding a massive cable is the 10 foot tall Seamen's...
Postcard

Coast Guard Station and Light House

Date: 1959
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Coast Guard Station and Light House at Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, Door County, Wisconsin." The lighthouse was completed in 1898 but s...
Postcard

Goodrich Line Steamer "Carolina"

Date: 06 17 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Goodrich Line Str. 'Carolina'." "Carolina of Duluth" is painted on the prow of the steamer. Passengers are lined up along the railing...
Postcard

Lovers' Leap

Date: 01 17 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers' Leap, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." Two men are posing while sitting on a block of stone under an overhang on Cabot's Point. The shorel...
Postcard

Where Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay Meet

Date: 07 06 1931
Description: Text on front reads: "Where Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay Meet, Sturgeon Bay, Wis." Aerial view of Sturgeon Bay showing the only bridge in existence at the ti...
Postcard

Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County." On reverse: "Built in 1883, the Sherwood Point Lighthouse marks the entrance into Sturgeon B...
Postcard

Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse is near Potawatomi State Park, north of St...
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sturgeon Bay, Door County." On reverse: "Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Door County. North Pierhead Light. Winter shows its pretty face on ...
Postcard

Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point

Date: 1940
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...
Postcard

Cedar Point

Date: 08 10 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Cedar Point, Lake Kegonsa." Cottages, docks and trees on the shore of a bay, with the shoreline curving to the right and a point of l...
Postcard

Kellstrom's Dock

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene at Kellstrom's Dock, Sister Bay, Wis." View of Sister Bay from a boathouse and dock, the sign reads: "Kellstrom's Fishing Trips...
Postcard

Little Sister and Sister Bays

Date: 07 29 1946
Description: Text on front reads: "Little Sister and Sister Bays, Sister Bay, Wis." A view from a hill of the shoreline of Green Bay, Lake Michigan.
Postcard

View on Rice Lake

Date: 03 20 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "View on Rice Lake, Rice Lake, Wis." and "Publ. by F.E. Robinson, Rice Lake, Wis." Houses and boathouses on the shore of Rice Lake thr...

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