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Dry Milk Plant in Columbus

Date: 1926
Description: Dry milk plant with a very tall smokestack. Some trucks are parked on the left.
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Lover's Lane

Date: 1911
Description: View of a dirt road winding through a forested area. A building is up the hill to the right of the road.
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Camp Ground at Indian Hill Pageant

Date: 1929
Description: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, circa 1929. Camp ground at Indian Hill Pageant near Highway 13.
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Crawfish River

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down the Crawfish River, with a large building with a three-story balcony on the right. A man and a boy are in a boat docked at the steps to t...
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Looking South on Main Street

Date: 1912
Description: Main Street, looking south.
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Broadhead and Hudson Streets

Date: 1909
Description: Mazomanie Post Office and the State Bank on the corner of Broadhead and Hudson. On the left a young girl stands in the dirt road. Further down the block a ...
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Seymour Corner Store and Gas Station

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view of a general store and gas station operated by James Smith. Four people stand posed in front of the building.
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Black Earth Wisconsin, Penco Filling Station

Date: 1929
Description: The Penco Filling Station in Black Earth. Wisconsin. Entrances to the ladies rest rooms in the service stations of this period were typically outside the ...
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Eau Claire Tourist Cabins

Date: 1929
Description: Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire.
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Black Earth Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
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Merrimac Ferry

Date: 1925
Description: Car ferry on the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. A ferry has operated at this site since the 1840's. In 1924 the privately owned ferry was replaced by this wo...
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Olin Park Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
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Ford, Frog, and Station

Date: 1929
Description: A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy....
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Baraboo Campground

Date: 1925
Description: The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep...
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Baraboo Campground

Date: 1925
Description: Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities.
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Log Cabin Filling Station

Date: 1927
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...
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Cameron Street Scene

Date: 02 1927
Description: Cameron Street Scene, primarily documenting the Boortz Garage and Sales Room and its curbside gas pumps.
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Chippewa Falls Tourist Camp

Date: 1926
Description: The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community.
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Swingli House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of Swingli House.
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Old Stone House

Date: 12 1929
Description: Exterior of stone house, built about 1830.

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