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High School

Date: 1925
Description: View of the front of the high school. The grounds feature a hand-pump water well and a flag post.
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Old Mission Cottages

Date: 1910
Description: View from water of Mission cottages along shoreline of Lake Superior in La Pointe, Madeline Island.
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Annex No. 1, Modern Home Hotel

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Description: View of the annex with more guest rooms and a porch, with part of the main building on the left. Plants and bushes are in the lawn.
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Sayners Resort

Date: 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Sayners Resort, Sayner, Wis." A large, multi-story, hotel-like resort surrounded by trees. A balcony runs around the main floor, part...
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Ravenswood Hotel Grounds

Date: 1927
Description: View down slope of hill towards the side of the Ravenswood Hotel among the pines. There is a porch and balcony along the side and front of the hotel, and h...
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Sponsored Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a wagon pulled by a team of six horses advertising "The People's Drugstore" under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Pa...
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Old Faithful Inn

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the 1904 Old Faithful Inn, located in Yellowstone National Park. An example of "rustic resort architecture," the inn has several wings, including...
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Hotel Bean

Date: 01 12 1914
Description: A woman on the sidewalk in front of the Hotel Bean, an Italianate style brick hotel built in 1901. It has a large covered porch with a balcony above. The h...
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J.H. Frazier Residence

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Description: View from street of the J.H. Frazier Residence, which is a two-story wood frame home with a porch and a balcony. There is a small garden in the center of t...
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Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1927
Description: View across road of a large cottage with a front porch on the right, with two people sitting in a lawn chair in front. Down the hill on the left behind tre...
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Fitzgerald's Rooms & Cabins "As You Like 'Em" 501 Broadway

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Description: Inn on corner with sidewalks in front. The inn has a large porch and balcony above, and there are cottages in the rear along the sidewalk on the left. A sw...
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Annex No. 2, Modern Home Hotel

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Description: View of an annex with more guest rooms, and exterior stairs that rist from the porch up to a balcony. Women are sitting on the porch and the lawn. On the l...
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Scene at Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1930
Description: Dells Farm Resort with an elevated view of a multi-room cottage with an outhouse located under the balcony on the right. Two women sit around a table in th...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down center of unpaved street in the central business district. On the left is a clothing store and school supply shop, and a drinking fountain and la...
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Parade Scene

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a loaded wagon/float in front of Building No. 88 on the northeast corner of South First and Fillmore Streets. A banner rea...

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