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| Date: | 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of people waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. Caption reads: "Scene at Gill's Rock Landing, Door County... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Mobil gas station constructed of split stone. Next door, offering ice cream, soda pop, and groceries to motorists near Silver Lake, was the Boothville groc... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of town. There is an unusual automobile parking pattern in the center of State Street. There is a sign for "Billiards" on a building in the r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road with small bridge along a lake. A man is driving an open automobile towards houses in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard showing a man driving an early open automobile with a railroad overpass behind him. Caption reads: "Out for a Spin, Bonduel, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Manawa High School. It is postmarked 1930, the year in which Joseph R. McCarthy, certainly its most famous graduate, completed his high school curriculum.... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the St. Joseph's Hospital. In the center is a two level open porch, with two people on the second level. A 1930s automobile is par... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view across water towards three islands in big Cedar Lake. The center island has a resort building with a red roof. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view across field towards Timmer's Resort, with a water tower and a windmill in the background. There is an automobile parked by a fence in th... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of a footbridge crossing over Cedar Creek. A man is fishing from the bridge, and a dog is standing nearby. Two boys are sitting in the gr... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the front of St. Andrews Church. There are wide steps and a central railing leading up to the entrance. The steeple of the churc... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the Highland Hotel's lakeside lawn. Several park benches are among the trees on the lawn. In the background at the shoreline is a boathouse with a ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the water tower, with Grand Rapids laid out behind it. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of the train depot with a clock tower. Men are gathered on the platform. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Mirror Lake. Trees are along the steep, exposed rock faces along the shoreline. There is a boat near a boathouse on the left, and in t... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | View of Grandad Bluff with snow on the ground. There is an American Flag flying from a flagpole on the top of the bluff. Text on back of postcard reads: "F... |
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