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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Wisconsin Dells. The wing of the airplane is in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View looking over Fort Dells, with cars parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Six men pose in front of trucks loaded with Wisconsin Dells' local land/water vehicles known as the Ducks. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lower Dells boats and docks covered with pollution from the paper mills up north. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the entrance to Fort Dells with cars parked in parking lot. |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | The Attorney General (center), on a train at Story Book Land. |
| Date: | 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fairy Godmother with kids on Story Book Land train. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Wally Byam Caravan of Airstream trailers in a group on a field across from Chula Vista. |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Couple on a wooden bridge over a dirt road at Birchcliff Lodge. |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Newman Custard Stand, at the intersection of Highway 12 and County A, on the West side. |
| Date: | 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Two women walking on the sidewalk along Broadway. Photograph taken from under the railroad bridge at Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells). The Wisconsin River is... |
| Date: | 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Construction equipment on a pontoon in the Wisconsin River during construction of the Wisconsin Dells bridge. Cars can be seen on the old railroad bridge i... |
| Date: | 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Cars in the parking lot at Stand Rock Amphitheater, where the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial is performed. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Entrance sign and rainbow between two trees in front of several cabins at the Rainbow Cabins. The cabins were located on Route 16 on Vine Street. |
| Date: | 05 24 1950 |
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| Description: | A view of downtown, including the official Dells ticket office. In the foreground a man is sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, and other pedestrians ar... |
| Date: | 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on the reverse reads: "The Fern Dell County School at The Pioneer Village Museum at Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Built in 1883 and used every year until 1955... |
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