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Winter View at King's Gateway Hotel

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Description: Five people are standing at a fence rail looking down at King's Gateway Hotel. Caption reads: "Winter View at King's Gateway Hotel from the Top of the Ski ...
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Sporting Event Spectators

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Description: A group of spectators including men, women, and children standing at a railing watching some type of sporting event in a field where a large crowd is gathe...
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Crowd at Sporting Event

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Description: View from track towards a crowd of men, women, and children in front of and behind a fence at a sporting event. On the left, a man who is possibly a police...
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Camel Rides at Vilas Park Zoo

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Description: Watercolor painting by Jens von Sivers presented to the zoo by the Provident Savings and Loan Association. The painting shows children riding camels led by...
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Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1940
Description: A postcard of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) depicting aquatic fowl, with an inset of a sea lion on a rock. Caption reads: "At the Zoo, Madison, Wis....
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A Stroll through Donges Bay

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Description: Well-dressed group of three women and one man walking along a dirt road lined with fences and telephone poles. Caption reads: "A Stroll through Donges Bay....
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Postcard with Finnish Harvesting Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester showing a color photograph of a harvesting scene in Finland. Original caption reads: "Finland — The women f...
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The First Kindergarten in America

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Description: Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ...
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Scene at Baileys Harbor

Date: 1921
Description: Photographic postcard view down a pine tree-lined road. On the road is a woman, a dog and a child posing together. Caption reads: "Scene at Baileys Harbor,...
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Mann's Resort, Trout Lake

Date: 08 06 1911
Description: A postcard sent by C.L. (Neal) Harrington to his sister Alice Harrington in Hurley, Wisconsin. A young man is standing near a fence on the right, and behin...
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Chickens on the Farm

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Description: A very happy grandmother stands in the farmyard with a granddaughter, a cow and many chickens. In the background is the farmhouse.
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Group Looking at Pigs

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Description: Three young women, one of them holding child on the fence, line up along the opposite side of a fence to look at a herd of pigs. They are all smiling. On t...
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William Fiebelkorn and his Wife Fredericke

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Description: Two horse-drawn sleighs are parked in the snow in front of a house. In the first one on the left, William Fiebelkorn Sr. and his wife Fredericke (Krause) s...
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Family Posed in Car

Date: 1914
Description: Anna Fiebelkorn is in the back seat of the car with another woman and two toddlers. William Fiebelkorn is driving the touring car. A small boy is sitting i...
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The William Fiebelkorn Farm

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Description: William Fiebelkorn and his wife Anna stand at a fence on their farm. William is holding a toddler. The house, the barn, several outbuildings and a windmill...
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Community Baseball Game

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a small town baseball game in progress. Audience members are standing on the sideline and sitting on the grass. Horses and bu...
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Duck Pond in Myrick Park

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Description: Text on reverse reads: "Duck Pond in Myrick Park, LaCrosse, Wis. — 17. Constructed of natural stone or 'gully rock', the duck pond is an outstanding attrac...
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Company Boarding House

Date: 1908
Description: View of a large boarding house. Two people are standing on the porch, and a woman is sitting and looking out of the sill of a second-story window. Caption ...
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Kiddie Train, Vilas Park Zoo

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Description: View of people riding the Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo. People behind the train are standing and watching the train near a fence, and there is a came...
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Nashotah Depot

Date: 1910
Description: An elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train depot at Nashotah. A woman is standing on the wooden sidewalk at left, near a small shelter. ...

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