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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Madison. The Lakeside House resort is in the foreground, which burned in 1877, in what is now Olin Park. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Colored bird's-eye map of Oconomowoc and the Lake Region, Waukesha County. Looking North from Government Hill. Location key below image identifies 24 Hotel... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across water towrads the Roger Williams Inn. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from a pier of rowboats and a cabin at the Island Resort on Lake Ripley. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Townsend House boathouse across a lake. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Townsend House. Image includes people sitting on porch, grounds, boat dock. |
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| Description: | View of the Cliff House, a resort near Devil's Lake. Caption on stereograph reads: "Devil's Lake and Vicinity. Views of the Cliff House, from the beach." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from across railroad tracks. Resort is on the water's edge, with a small inlet on the right. Land is mostly sand, though a small part on the left ha... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| 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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| Description: | View from lake of the buildings of the Sunflower Cottage Resort. People are canoeing and boating in the lake in front of the resort, and a few people are s... |
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| Description: | A view of Lac Court O'Reilles at Schramm's Resort, including wood lawn chairs, a bench and trees. The side of a cottage is on the left. Caption reads: "A P... |
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| Description: | A wooded lakeside scene at Wilsie's WHite Birch Lodge including a small bridge and a footpath leading to picnic tables. Caption reads: "Scene at Wilsie's W... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Exterior view toward the store. There are two gas pumps in front, and trees and a lake in the background. Caption reads: "Log cabin store at Pine Grove Res... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from water of vacation cabins and boats along lake shoreline of Turtle Flowage. The roof of the building on the right says: "Al's Place / Lunches — Ca... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of Oneida Colony, a northern lake resort. Small boats are lined up along the shore, and birds are gathered near a large birdhouse. A man is lifting on... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from water of northern Wisconsin cabin in the woods with boat docks along the rip-rapped shore. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from lake of cabins in northern Wisconsin forest, with boat docks along the shoreline. |
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