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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p... |
| Date: | 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Cameron Street Scene, primarily documenting the Boortz Garage and Sales Room and its curbside gas pumps. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | One of the locomotives from the Hillsboro and Northeastern Railway with the engineer leaning out of his window. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down a street in Denzer with a parked car and a group of people, including children, posing in front of a building. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved Merrimac street with a brick building and horse-drawn carriages. The caption at bottom left reads: "A Fine Business Block." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Parson's Indian Village, a tourist attraction on Highway 12 styled after a Zuni pueblo. Caption reads: "Zuni Pueblo-Parson's Indian Villag... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down road lined with trees and storefronts. A number of automobiles can be seen parked. The Post Office is on the right. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Main Street with several cars parked along the curb. A curbside Red Crown gas pump is visible at the right near the O.W. Schuele Hardware store, and people... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Man pumps gas into an automobile at the Consolidated Boat Co. There is advertising for Coca-Cola, Baby Ruth, and Occident Flour on the side of the small fr... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Ward Hotel from road. Sign painted on roof of turret says, "Hotel Ward." A large group of men, two women, and a dog, are posing on the sidewalk... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Central Hotel on corner lot from street. There is a dog lying on the porch on the left, and a man relaxing in a chair with his feet on a post o... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks of a group of six people standing on the platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. Beyond the depot is a water tower... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down street showing commercial area with large power lines stretching into the distance, with a large hill in the background. A man is driving a horse... |
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| Description: | View down a main street with storefronts, showing large power lines stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background. There are cars parked in fr... |
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