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International Aristocrat Scout

Date: 05 16 1969
Description: International Harvester Aristocrat Scout. Right-front view. Original caption reads, "Photograph W-6098-- Low profile wide oval tires are featured on the al...
Photograph

Simons Family Portrait

Date: 1890
Description: Group portrait of two men and five women. On the ground in the center are hand fans, and a hat. Caption reads: "The Simons Family. Left to right, seated on...
Photograph

Women Posed Reading Letter

Date: 1907
Description: Two women are posing together in a yard front of plants and vines building on the side of a building. The woman on the left is standing and holding a lette...
Magazine or Periodical

Bucyrus Erie Scraper Pulled by International Harvester TD-18 Crawler

Date: 1950
Description: Bucyrus-Erie Scraper being pulled an International Harvester TD-18 Crawler. Original caption reads: "Dam sinking near Wedderburn, Victoria, this four-wheel...
Photograph

What to Wear on UW Campus

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Janice Clark, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin and a graduate of East high school in Madison, is shown wearing a straight stone green and gray pla...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 12 24 1908
Description: Christmas postcard with sprigs of mistletoe and holly intertwined on a light blue background with snow. Lightly embossed. Text on front in mrtallic gold re...
Postcard

Merry Christmas and Bright New Year

Date: 12 31 1908
Description: Christmas and New Years postcard with a Bluebird and holly on a metallic gold background. The text: "To Wish you a merry Christmas and a bright New Year" i...
Postcard

All Joy to You This Eastertide

Date: 03 23 1907
Description: Easter postcard with two rabbits, one inside a hinged and decorated Easter egg, and the other rabbit outside. They are touching noses. The egg and rabbits ...
Postcard

Good Luck for Christmas

Date: 1907
Description: Holiday postcard that reads: "Good Luck for Christmas; Good Luck for the New Year For you and yours and Everybody you hold dear." The postcard is embellish...
Photograph

Road Along Namakagon Lake

Date: 10 1960
Description: Narrow dirt road with guard posts curves among autumn foliage along Lake Namakagon near Forest Lodge cow palace.
Postcard

In Redbird Gorge

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Real Photo Postcard." A group of sightseers wave to the camera as they travel under a bridge and through a tree shaded gorge in a Duc...
Postcard

Red Bird Gorge

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Red Bird Gorge." A water and land vehicle, called a Duck, squeezes through a narrow gorge full of trees and foliage. A bridge above s...
Postcard

Lone Rock

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Lone Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin." A canoe in the shallow water near the shore. In the distance are rock formations and islands in t...
Postcard

Lone Rock

Date: 10 01 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Lone Rock. Lower Dells, Wis." The tour boat "Josephine" from the Dells Boat Company glides past an island rock formation. Trees and f...
Postcard

Hornet's Nest

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Hornet's Nest, Dells of the Wisconsin, Kilbourn City, Wis." The rock formation "Hornet's Nest" surrounded by trees and foliage with a...
Postcard

Hornet's Nest, Dells of the Wisconsin River

Date: 1920
Description: Text on front reads: "Hornet's Nest, Dells of the Wisconsin River." On reverse: "From Luncheon Hall to the right is the Hornet's Nest, a cone shaped rock, ...
Postcard

Hornet's Nest

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Hornets Nest. Dells of Wis." The rock formation "Hornet's Nest" surrounded by trees and foliage, with a man sitting at the base.
Postcard

Bridge, Mill and Power House

Date: 11 20 1906
Description: Text on front reads: "Bridge, Mill and Power House, Weyauwega, Wis." The Weyauwega Mill and grain elevator on the right, power house on the left with the M...
Postcard

Fern Dells

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Fern Dells, Mirror Lake, Delton, Wis. (Near The Dells of The Wisconsin)." Rock formations, trees, boathouse, boat and dock on the sho...
Postcard

Devil's Post Office

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Devil's Post Office, Mirror Lake, Delton, Wis. (Near The Dells of The Wisconsin.)" A rock formation with a hole in it on the shore of...

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