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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Wisconsin postcard collection, circa 1860s?-circa 1990s
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| Description: | View looking south down Main Street, which is lined with commercial business. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the street. |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18, entering the harbor. |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the high school. A date stone above a second floor window reads: "Erected A.D. 1887." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
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| Description: | Embossed souvenir postcard decorated with gold that depicts the third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared, 1883-1904. The gold dome was an entirely arti... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of one of the four Prairie du Chien stone gateways that stood at the four corner entrances to the Capitol Park. More elaborate gates topped with iron... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Manitowoc on the shores of Lake Michigan. A map of the northeastern part of the United States at the top indicates Manitowoc's location... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fountain City, with bluffs in the background. |
| Date: | September 1947 |
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| Description: | Waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Union Depot with clock tower. Railroad station on left side, with clock tower. Park area on right. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance.The card is p... |
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| Description: | The railroad bridge over the Rock River. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Composite image of "Packerland U.S.A." including prominent attractions: Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, NFL Football team; the Brown County A... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Crowds on Front Street during Dodge County Fair day, circa 1910-1915. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the State Street and Lake Street intersection, with the Co-op book store, the Rennebohm Drug Store and the Wisconsin State Capitol at the... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the La Crosse County Courthouse. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Lake Winnebago and vicinity, including Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Neenah and Appleton. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of Ebner's Coulee as seen from Grandad Bluff. |
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| Description: | View from road towards farm buildings at the base of the bluff. |
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