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Crystal Cave Gift Shop & Cafe

Date: 1953
Description: Text on front reads: "Crystal Cave Gift Shop & Cafe, Spring Valley, Wisconsin". On reverse it reads: "Crystal Cave, Spring Valley, Wisconsin. Highway Wisco...
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Totem Pole Room at Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1945
Description: Totem Pole Room at the Cave of the Mounds. Caption on back of print reads: "The Totem Pole Room is popular with visitors because of the rich coloring and r...
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Eagle Cave "Giant Stalagmites"

Date: 06 15 1946
Description: Interior view of Eagle Cave, Richland County, featuring "Giant Stalagmites." Wisconsin's largest onyx cave.
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Mine Entrance

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Description: Two men are standing in front of the entrance to a mine. Vertical beams are just inside the entrance. The man on the left has a cloth sack draped over his ...
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Two Men Standing in Cave

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Description: Two men are standing in a cave. They are both wearing hats that read: "El Dorado Natural Plastic." Another man is standing in the right foreground looking ...
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Man at Mouth of Cave

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Description: View looking down towards a man in the mouth of a cave on the side of a hill covered with plants and trees. Lantern slide.
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Cave Chandelier

Date: 1941
Description: The typed caption on the reverse of this photograph explains: "On the bridge above the underground lake in Cave of the Mounds at Blue Mounds, Wis., Arthur ...
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Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1941
Description: Arthur Pond, wearing knickers, heavy stockings, a coat and hat is standing admiring the walls in the Cave of the Mounds. On the reverse of the photograph i...
Postcard

Smocks Cave

Date: 1908
Description: Exterior view of a cave entrance. Caption reads: "Smocks Cave, Monroe, Wis."
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Sea Caves

Date: 1920
Description: View across water towards three men and a woman posing while standing in a wooden boat in a sea cave in the Apostle Islands. Rock formations and other sea ...
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View from the Cave

Date: 1935
Description: A retouched, elevated view, looking out the mouth of a cave, over Nelson Dewey State Park. Far below are a railroad bridge and the backwaters of the Missis...
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Castle Rock Cave

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Description: View of a large chamber in Castle Rock Cave.
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Men in Castle Rock Cave

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Description: Group portrait of four men sitting inside a cave with a low ceiling. One man is holding a flashlight, and one man is smoking a pipe. A caption identifies t...
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Limestone Caves Near Maribel

Date: 1929
Description: View of a cave surrounded by trees. Caption reads: "Maribel (vicinity) Manitowoc County Wis 1929 Caves in limestone rock." These caves are possibly part...
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Hall of Travertine, Cave of the Mounds

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Description: View of a large interior cave room. There is a wooden bridge and a lighting fixture. Caption reads: "Hall of Travertine, a single room 350 feet long with t...
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Big Sand Cave

Date: 1937
Description: View of the entrance to Big Sand Cave, which according to the caption is located in Nelson Dewey State Park. This dates the image to before 1937, when the ...
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Inside Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1969
Description: A girl is standing high up among a group of stalagmites in the Cave of the Mounds. Another girl is leaning against a railing on the left.
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Human Figure Petroglyph

Date: 1958
Description: Carving in stone of a human fugure at Gullickson's Glen.
Postcard

Marquette State Park, The Sand Caves

Date: 1914
Description: Postcard for Marquette Park in Grant County, number 4706 in a series by E.A. Bishop of Racine. The caption on the back of the postcard reads: "The pictures...
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Rock Formation

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Description: View along side of cliff towards a rock formation, with what may be a cave inside the rock.

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