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Dering's Resort

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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.
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Entrance to Silver-Dale Resort

Date: 04 1925
Description: View of the wood trellis fence and columns that frame the entrance gate to the Silver-Dale Resort. A group of people are sitting on the porch of a refreshm...
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Panoramic Resort — Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1930
Description: View of the entrance to Devil's Lake State Park. There is an information center offering gas, food, and Blatz beer. Two storekeepers and a boy sit on the p...
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Tourist Free Campground

Date: 1925
Description: An information station advertising: free camping, with hot sandwiches and coffee, and tents and cots for sale. On a utility line pole, there are signs for ...
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President's Dining Lodge on the Brule

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Description: Black and white postcard view of the President's Dining Lodge on the Brule River surrounded by trees. A bridge is on the left. Caption reads: "President's ...
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Summer White House on the Brule

Date: 1926
Description: Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S...
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Housekeeping Cottages at Cottage Grove Resort on Mason Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin.
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Chapel at Willlerup Camp, Lake Ripley

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Description: A hexagon-shaped chapel along the dirt road.
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Scene at Congress Hall

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

Date: 1929
Description: An automobile is parked at the side of the road near tourist cabins at Panoramic Resort at Devil's Lake.
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View of Pine Gable's on Lake Owen

Date: 1931
Description: View from the water of three boys on the dock at the foot of a steep stairway. There is a large roofed landing with benches half way up the hill, and many ...
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Pine Gables on Lake Owen

Date: 1931
Description: View from lake of a few boys on a dock as well as four wooden boats pulled up along the dock or the shoreline. There is a diving platform at the end of the...
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Pine Gable's on Lake Owen

Date: 1935
Description: View looking down a dirt road. Two cabins and an automobile are visible through the trees at Pine Gable's on Lake Owen.
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White Pine Lodge View Towards Lake Owen

Date: 1935
Description: View looking down a hill at a cabins and a deck of the White Pine Lodge. On the shoreline of Lake Own is a dock with two boats.
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Trail to Maple Grove at Nature Lovers Paradise

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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...
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The Bobynn Gateway, Lake Namakagon

Date: 1932
Description: View of Gateway to Bobynn on Lake Namakagon, labeled as Cable and Grand View, Wisconsin. In front is a dirt road with two signs that read "The Bobynn." Beh...
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Main Lawn at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View across lawn of a group of women and one man. The guests of the hotel are relaxing under the trees on the lawn of the resort. A man and a woman are hol...
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Birchcliff Hotel

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Description: View across road towards the stone steps leading up a hill to the main building of the Birchcliff Hotel. A lawn swing is on top of the hill to the left of ...
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Main Building, The "Black Oaks at the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: View up drive towards the main building with wrap-around porch. A bicycle is parked at the bottom of the stairs. Guest cottages are behind the main buildin...

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