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| Description: | View out Witches' Gulch of tourist stand, with men sitting in chairs. There is a covered open-air platform beyond. |
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| Description: | View of bow of "Apollo No. 1" steamboat with passengers posing near a dock on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| Date: | 04 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in front of the Lake Delton airport hangar with a windsock on the roof. Automobiles are parked inside the hangar. On the right is a fu... |
| Date: | 05 21 1935 |
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| Description: | International Model C-1 truck parked in front of Edmonton capitol building in Alberta, Canada. The truck was used to promote tourism in Alberta and is pain... |
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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. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a man standing on a road near a sign reading "Tours" and consulting a guide book. |
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| Description: | Three men are posing outside of the First Wisconsin Capitol. The man standing in the middle is C.L. (Neal) Harrington. |
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| Description: | View of "Streets of Yesterday" at House on the Rock. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a small information center. Text on reverse reads: "Keehner's Information Center Specialists in locating you 'A Vacation Spot Sure To ... |
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| Description: | View of a storefront at night. The electric sign above the glass door and window reads: "Official Wisconsin Vacation Center: Solve Your Shopping Worries, S... |
| Date: | 09 1939 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin float in the 1939 American Legion Convention parade features a log cabin and a boat and is decorated with small evergreen trees and boughs. T... |
| Date: | 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Conservation Warden Emil Kramer is standing on a float in the American Legion National Convention parade in Boston, Massachusetts. He is wearing waders and... |
| Date: | 09 19 1937 |
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| Description: | View towards a group of people looking at a float, built on the bed of a truck, representing the Wisconsin Conservation Department. The float is stopped on... |
| Date: | 09 26 1939 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Conservation Department float in the 1939 Chicago American Legion Parade. The float features two women who are standing in a canoe pretending t... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards the right half of the Joseph Hackel Building and the Stanley Hanks Building. The ground floor of the Joseph Hackel Buildin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are posing on and near the family's 1935 Oldsmobile sedan, which is parked in a tunnel built th... |
| Date: | 07 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people on the platform at the railroad station. Caption with negative reads: "Alaska's tourist season at height — McKinley park route tour... |
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| Description: | Patti Harrison is reaching into an open cooler in front of the Deer Park storefront. She is looking over her shoulder at a wooden American Indian advertisi... |
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