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| Description: | A row of road signs, many of them advertising resorts, at the intersection of Highway 51 and Highway 70 between Minoqua and Woodruff. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Birch Cottage surrounded by trees. There is a cushioned porch swing and other outdoor furniture on the rustic porch which wraps around... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Virginia Ross poses at a table in front of a large stove in the kitchen. Caption reads: "Kitchen at Ross's Tel Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | The lounge at the Lakewoods on Lake Namakagon, which includes a fireplace, furniture, large picture window, and a mounted deer head on the wall. Caption re... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the dining room which shows tables set for a meal. Large picture windows have views of the lake and woods surrounding the resort, and above the win... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the log cabin. Caption reads: "No 2 Cabin at Virgin Timber Lodge on Moose Lake, Hayward, Wis." |
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| Description: | Two men and one woman in Native American costume stand near a fence and a U.S. flag outside the entrance of Pipe Dyer's Trading Post in Fort Dells. There a... |
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| Description: | Back fold of a Wisconsin Dells promotional brochure featuring a simplified Wisconsin highway map with directions to the Dells, and a drawing of a family dr... |
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| Description: | Young boy running down the path leading away from an attraction depicting a scene from the nursery rhyme "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," part of Story... |
| Date: | 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Two men with cameras around their necks stand near a couple in a Plymouth pulling an airstream camper through a gate. The sign on the gate in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | The buffet table at the Governor's residence is set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. The buffet table includes an "Am... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of the buffet table at the Governor's residence set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. Shown is a close-up o... |
| Date: | 05 25 1963 |
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| Description: | An interior view of Treasure City, a souvenir shop on a highway which travels north from Chicago, Illinois. Nets of sea shells, displays of jewelery, and m... |
| Date: | 09 18 1950 |
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| Description: | The American Automobile Association sponsored a campaign for safety at the fall opening of the schools with posters announcing "School's Open," displayed h... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the S.S. Leviathan as the "World's Largest Ship." The poster depicts an elevated view of a large number of tourists... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Connemara, Ireland, and CIE Tours International travel company. Featuring the artist Costelloe, the poster depicts a bus t... |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, promoting travel to "Ireland This Year" and the Rock of Cashel.... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a donkey train going up a zig-zag trail along the mountainside in Glacier National Park. |
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| Description: | A large group of well-dressed tourists posing on the decks of the steamboat Apollo. A few men are posing on a landing below steep stairs that run al... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the steamboat the "Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge. A woman and a young child sit on the shoreline. |
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