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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Allis Chalmers Club House. Caption reads: "Allis Chalmers Club House, West Allis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the main building in the distance, and in the foreground a golf course of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Bldg., Moor (Mud) Baths, Wauke... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis. in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main Stre... |
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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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| Description: | Postcard printed in brown ink of a line of soldiers in uniform hiking in a column. They have bedrolls over their shoulders. Towards the rear are soldiers o... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a combat drill. The scene includes soldiers, horses, wagons, cannons, tents, buildings and trees. Text above reads: "'Preparing for A... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Trees for Tomorrow Environmental Center, with buildings, grounds, roads, and the Eagle River. Founded in 1944. |
| Date: | 09 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small sample of "4000 cars" parked at the Great Fair. Caption reads: "Four Thousand Automobiles in 1914, The Great Fair, Elkhorn, Sept. ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline with a group of people gathered at a bathing beach. Some people are in the water; other people are standing on the shore fully dress... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a community fair with tents set up for exhibits. Two buildings with signs are just beyond the tents on the midway, with signs that read, o... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of boys are fishing on the river bank beside a dam. Buildings are on the far bank. Caption reads: "Fishing at Dam on Rock River, Jefferson, Wis." |
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| Description: | A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho... |
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| Description: | View of a wooden sculpture at the entrance of a casino. Text on reverse reads: "This carving by Gene Delcourt is representative of the seven clans of the L... |
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| Description: | View across driveway towards a building with a front porch on a hill, with trees and flowering bushes flanking the stairs leading up to the entrance. Capti... |
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| Description: | A group of ski instructors assembled for an outdoor group portrait. Text on reverse reads: "Every year thousands of students learn to ski in lessons fro... |
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| Description: | Tall-tale postcard showing three men fishing off a pier, with two of the men holding fishing poles and two gigantic fish rising out of the water. A buildin... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Eleven men standing together, facing left and looking towards the photographer. Ten of the men are wearing baseball uniforms, and nine of them are holding ... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the bath house and bathing beach at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the fairgrounds during the fair. A food vendor is in the foreground and a crowd is gathered there. Caption reads: "View of the Manitowoc C... |
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