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Calvin Coolidge Fishing

Date: 1928
Description: President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge...
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Cedar Bark Lodge

Date: 1910
Description: Group of five people, (includes Jesse Stone, Mrs. Abernathy, A.G. Hull, Leo Capser, and Captain Angus) standing in front of Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Isla...
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Wisconsin Tourism Sign

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Description: Group of resort and hotel owners gathered in front of a Wisconsin tourism sign that reads: "Relax In Wisconsin." There is a building in the background.
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Guests with Muskies at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge

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Description: Group of men displaying 13 muskellunge caught at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge. Caption reads: "Muskies caught by Guests at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis."
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Big Bill Thompson and Friends

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Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
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La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
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Wally Byam Airstreamer

Date: 06 1959
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...
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Shoreline Cottage near Hayward

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Description: View from water of a man wearing a hat and boots walking along the shoreline. A cabin is located up on the bank.
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Surrey

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Description: Using a surrey as a taxi for a resort hotel, a man poses in the covered carriage in front of a tree. The city of Howey was founded in 1925, but its name ch...
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Boys on Horseback at Buck Hill Falls

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Description: Boys ride ponies and travel in horse-drawn carriages through a field at Buck Hill Falls, a private resort community in the Pocono Mountains. Behind them,...
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The Samoset

Date: 1910
Description: A group of adults, mostly women, walk along the Rockland Breakwater. The Samoset Resort is in the background on the shoreline. Caption reads: "The Samoset ...
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Kinzler's Kabin

Date: 1930
Description: View from across road of a grocery store and gas station, with a home next door. The store features two pumps and advertises Deep Rock motor oil, Coca-Cola...
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Morgan's Lost Land Lake Resort Shoreline

Date: 1935
Description: View along shoreline of a man wearing a hat and sitting on a hillside. A dog retrieves a stick in the water. Wooden row boats are at docks in the backgroun...
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Dining Cabin at Fin and Feather Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View over Moose Lake of log building on low hillside. A man and another person are standing on a dock next to a wood boat with a small motor attached, and ...
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Horseback Rider at Eggert's Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View up hill of a man sitting on a horse in front of cabin with a log foundation. Two other unsaddled horses are also in the yard along with two dogs. Ther...
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Eggert's Point Henry Resort

Date: 1935
Description: Four men and two women outside lakeside cabin built with vertical logs at Spider Lake. One women is sitting on the ground hugging a dog, and the other wom...
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Eggert's Point Henry Resort Boats

Date: 1935
Description: View from lawn of two men in a wooden rowboat on Spider Lake. There are two docks each with a wooden rowboat tied to it.
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Eggert's Point Henry Resort Rowboat

Date: 1935
Description: Man with oar sitting in rowboat with a motor attached, paddling near shore of Spider Lake. "Point Henry Resort" is stenciled on the side of the boat.
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Moody's Log Cabins

Date: 1935
Description: View down hill of log cabins on shore of Spider Lake. A dog is laying on a path near two lawn swings, and a man is leaning against a tree stump, gazing at ...
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Ross's Teal Lake Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: View down drive of facade of one-story long log building surrounded by trees. A man is walking along the side of the lodge in the far right background.

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