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Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan, with crowds of individuals walking up the numerous paths that lead to the resor...
Postcard

Whitefish Bay Resort

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of people walking on a path by the Whitefish Bay Resort along the lake front. Caption reads: "Whitefish Bay Resort, Milwaukee."
Photograph

Dering's Resort

Date: 
Description: View of Dering's Resort, located in a wooded area. In the foreground is a road, and on the other side is a resort cabin with a small garden and bird bath.
Photograph

Path to Lyndale Bay Resort Cabins

Date: 1938
Description: Cabins around clearing in the woods at Lyndale Bay Resort on Upper Eau Claire Lake.
Photograph

Briar Cliff on Diamond Lake

Date: 1937
Description: House, garage, and cottage on shoreline of Diamond Lake.
Photograph

Swanson Cottages, Lake Ripley

Date: 1926
Description: A cottage with a "Hill-Side" sign. An outhouse is to the right of the cottage. There is a path up the hill on the left.
Photograph

Scene at Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Rock formations at Congress Hall on the Dell View Resort property.
Photograph

Entrance to Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property.
Photograph

The Narrows in Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: View down a narrow wooden walkway through rock formations at Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property.
Map or Atlas

Hunting and Fishing Resorts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan reached by the Chicago and North Western Railway

Date: 1916
Description: This map shows the locations of hunting and fishing resorts in the northern Wisconsin counties of Forest, Iron, Oneida, and Vilas, and in Gogebic County in...
Map or Atlas

Map of Lakes and Resorts of Central Wisconsin

Date: 1904
Description: A map that shows the location of the lakes and resorts in northeastern Wisconsin that were reachable by the Chicago and North Western Railway. Shown in the...
Print

Sanatorium Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of The Sanatorium Company, with a three-quarter view of the sanatorium building set into a background of flowers and banners proclaiming the ben...
Photograph

Trail to Maple Grove at Nature Lovers Paradise

Date: 
Description: View of a trail through the forest on land owned by Nature Lovers Paradise resort on Jackson Lake. The text describing the photograph says, "The trail lead...
Map or Atlas

Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation

Date: 1974
Description: This 1968 map identifies resorts in the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation region of Wisconsin, covering parts of Iron, Vilas, Oneida, and Price counties. ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Spooner, Wisconsin Lakes Area

Date: 1941
Description: This 1941 map covers Washburn County, Wisconsin, as well as western Sawyer, eastern Burnett, and northeastern Polk counties. It shows the locations of tour...
Map or Atlas

Star Lake Country, Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1909
Description: This 1909 map of northern Wisconsin and a portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula shows the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, cities and villages, railroad...
Photograph

Scene at Chula Vista Hotel Grounds

Date: 1926
Description: View of grounds with a large guest cottage with large front porch on the right. On the left is a three-story structure shaped like a tower.
Map or Atlas

Map of Flambeau Reservoir

Date: 1941
Description: This is map one of three maps that show trails, roads and fire lanes, utilities, resorts, submerged lakes, vegetation, flowage right lands, and timber righ...
Map or Atlas

Land of Lakes, Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: This map shows roads, foot and canoe trails, railroads, resorts, lookout towers, camps, national and state forests, Indian reservation, and types of fish i...
Map or Atlas

Vilas County : State Funded & Club Funded Groomed Snowmobile Trails

Date: 2006
Description: This map includes indexed advertisements and map of the Lac du Flambeau region on back. The map is broken into 9 zones, each marked with state and club tra...

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