Postcard
The Friendly Buckhorn
| Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin". Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a visit to the 'FRIENDLY BUCKHORN' at Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Hundreds of curios on display including the 'WORLD'S RECORD DEER.'" The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios including some hoaxes, a shovel-tailed snowsnake, a dingbat and a fur herring. Originally the Buckhorn was a billiard parlor. |
| Image ID: | 148647 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1950 |
| Creator Name: | Kaeser and Blair, Inc. |
| City: | Rice Lake |
| County: | Barron |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin postcard collection, circa 1860s?-circa 1990s |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2744 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Divided back. Creator aka "Picto Cards–Kaeser & Blair." |
| Animals |
| Deer |
| Fishes |
| Snakes |
| Taxidermy |
| Seating (Furniture) |
| Exhibitions |
| Indoor photography |
| Pinball machines |
| Display of merchandise |
| Marketing |
| Bars (Drinking establishments) |
| Tourism |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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