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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison. |
| 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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Row of cabins in Effinger Park. Each has a screened back porch. Picnic tables, sling-back chairs, and a parked car are under the trees on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the Carthwaite Park tourist camp and picnic grounds. There is a sign for a filling station 1 mile ahead. A car is parked inside the grounds... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Looking down from a hilltop of a car parked under a tree. The campground is populated with well-dressed families walking down a path, and their parked cars... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the public school. The school building features two stories, a bell tower, and a porch. A car is parked by the entrance. There is a swing ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men and women, some in bathing suits, pose in front of the Gallop Inn Resort restaurant. |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of a man and two boys fishing on a wooden dock. A rowboat is pulled up on the shore. Two cars are parked near trees. In the far backgr... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down street with children playing in the background. Along the street is a row of businesses and storefronts. Advertisements for Chesterfield cigarett... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of C.J. Hensel hotel and bowling ally. An automobile is parked near the raised platform in front of a storefront with larg... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A log cabin and park car at the Tourist Free Camp Ground. The cabin has a sign that reads, "New Glarus Settled 1845." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the entrance to Golden Rule Park. A large sign says "Golden Rule Park / Welcome." Men, woman and children are posed near cabins an... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street, showing the central business district. A drug store, restaurant and hotel are on the left. A garage, bank, bathhouse, bowling a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Berg & Jones Department Store, with posters in the front windows announcing an upcoming Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of Main Street with commercial buildings on both sides. A steep hill with trees is in the far background. On the left are doctor's offic... |
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