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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of young people playing croquet on a court surrounded by trees. Men and women are standing on the right watching. There are auto... |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a lakeside resort among trees. Caption reads: "Spring Haven, Lake Geneva, (Near Chicago)." |
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| Description: | View towards a cottage nestled among the trees. In the foreground a tennis net is stretched across the sloped lawn. Caption reads: "Rose Lodge — Lake Riple... |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the front of the lodge. Text on reverse reads, in part: "Sunrise Lodge on beautiful Lac Vieux Desert, Land O' Lakes." "Offering the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of trees shading the lawn at Menges Resort on Lake Puckaway. There is a two-story wood frame building with a screened porch acro... |
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| Description: | External view along the side of the Kilkare Lodge, which is on a sloping hill. Many of the windows are open. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | External view of Kilkare Lodge. Many of the windows are open. |
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| Description: | Engels Resort sign on posts above the entrance, with cabins in the background. Birdhouses on posts line the two-track drive. Caption reads: "Engel's Resort... |
| Date: | 07 11 1953 |
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| Description: | Text on front: "The Breakers, Racine, Wis." A green roofed white lodge on Lake Michigan's lakeshore. Trees, sidewalks, flowers, and lawns surround the lodg... |
| Date: | 08 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Blaesing's Shorewood Vista, Lake George, Rhinelander, Wis." Along the front of the resort building river rocks are used to cover the ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Pioneer Cabin at Duffy's Resort on Long Lake, Sarona, Wis." A square hewn log cabin at a resort has a stone chimney and is surrounded... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Camper's Dormitory at Audubon Camp, Sarona, Wis." An "L" shaped, one-story building surrounded by a lawn. Trees are in the background... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Waukesha Springs Sanitarium, Waukesha, Wis." The sanitarium was constructed in 1903 as a large resort/hospital facility by Dr. Byron ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Beautiful Nook of Oak Lodge." A striped tent is pitched in the center of a clearing in the trees, surrounded by log cabins and a cone... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: Pop's Pine Resort, Virgin Lake, Three Lakes, Wis." A large clapboard building with many windows and a long enclosed porch. There is la... |
| Date: | 08 21 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tichigan Lake, Wis." A couple stands next to parked cars in front of the grocery store at Wichmans Resort. On the right is a crowd of... |
| Date: | 09 05 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "L.A. Rowland's Res., Tomah, Wis." A large clapboard lodge with striped awnings and a decorative wooden fence. A sidewalk, lawn and tr... |
| Date: | 06 16 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bethesda Spring, Waukesha, Wis." Bethesda Spring is located inside an ornate pavilion surrounded by trees. The Terrace Hotel can be s... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore." Two men playing tennis on the lawn at a resort on Big Cedar Lake. Trees and the lake are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Gonring's Resort at Cedar Lake near West Bend, Wis." Two-story clapboard lodging with a covered porch on the left. A rowboat is pulle... |
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