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Falls in the Wisconsin River

Date: 1907
Description: View toward a waterfall from the river below. Rock faces rise on both sides, and trees are growing along the tops of the cliffs. Caption reads: "Lone Rock(...
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Falls in the Wisconsin River

Date: 1907
Description: View upriver across rocks towards water falling over a rock under a small wooden bridge. The rockface of a bluff rises above the bridge in the background, ...
Postcard

Big Manitou Falls

Date: 08 07 1942
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...
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Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Text on front reads: "Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park, Superior, Wis." On reverse: "Manitou Falls, with a specacular drop of 165 ft., is the most outsta...
Postcard

Beautiful Dam at Taliesin

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Beautiful Dam at Taliesin, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Loyd Wright. Spring Green, Wisconsin." The pond at Taliesin, the home of Fran...
Postcard

Como Falls, near La Crosse, Wis.

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Description: View across Como Falls. Bluffs are in the background on the right.
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Copper Falls, Copper Falls State Park

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Description: Elevated view of Copper Falls.
Postcard

Peavey Falls

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Description: Caption on back reads: "Neopit, Wis. Menominee Indian rocky outcroppings . . . winding falls . . . nature trail."
Postcard

The Water Falls in the Village Park

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of a dam created waterfall on the Fox River. A city park is on the banks.
Postcard

Falls at Tyler's Forks, Mellen, Wis.

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Description: View of a waterfall at Copper Falls State Park.
Photograph

Fisherman

Date: 1963
Description: Slightly elevated view of a fisherman standing on the rocks below a spillway. Trees are along the shoreline. On the right is a picnic area, and on the hori...
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Rushing Waters

Date: 1956
Description: Water cascades beneath a footbridge and over boulders on a river. A canopy of trees is overhead.
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Spotlight on Fury

Date: 1956
Description: A sunbeam highlights a torrent of water, below the the falls, on the Amnicon River during the spring thaw.
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Spring Thaw

Date: 1952
Description: The Devils River cascades past old bridge abutments in the spring. The tree-lined shoreline and stone abutments are still covered with snow.
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Copper Falls

Date: 08 1952
Description: Copper Falls in Copper Falls State Park. The falls are on the Bad River. A group of people are standing on the rocks on the right. Trees are in the backgro...
Drawing

Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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Dave's Falls

Date: 1937
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man and woman sitting on rocks at the edge of the Pike River, with Dave's Falls behind them.
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Dells of the Wolf River

Date: 07 26 1931
Description: An elevated view of the Wolf River. The base of Smokey Falls is in the foreground. A large pine is growing on the rocky bank on the right. The printed capt...
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Brownstone Falls

Date: 1930
Description: An elevated view of Brownstone Falls. Two tall pines are growing at the top edge of a rock to the right of the falls.

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