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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the kiddie train at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). The train was donated by the Madison Lions Club and operated from 1953-1968... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Monkey Island, a popular attraction at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). It was built in the 1930s as a WPA project and modeled after one in the Hagen... |
| Date: | 07 1964 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Marinette County Park. Picnic tables and a playground are scattered under a pine forest. Caption reads: "Marinette County Par... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard view of the Eagle Lighthouse in Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a range light built in 1870 to guide ships into the harbor at The Ridges Sanctuary, north of Bailey's Harbor, Door County. The Ridges S... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the rustic bridge in Lakeside Park featuring railings made of branches. Caption reads: "Rustic Bridge, Lakeside Park, Fond du Lac, Wis." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Irises along a path in Whitnall Park. Text on reverse reads: "Over 400 varieties of iris grow in the perennial borders. Thousands of blooms can be seen ... |
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| Description: | Ektachrome postcard of flower beds surrounding a fountain. A trellis and a bridge are on the left. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra. |
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