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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Chapel at Willerup Camp — Lake Ripley — Cambrdige. Wis." The camp was named for the Danish immigrant minister, Christian B. Willerup, who e... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across road of a brewery in a residential area. Children are standing on the sidewalk, and on the lawn near a hammock and a lawn swing. A tall industr... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An information station advertising: free camping, with hot sandwiches and coffee, and tents and cots for sale. On a utility line pole, there are signs for ... |
| 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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A man, woman, and child pose by a car near a tourist camping stop. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The entrance way to the Evergreen Resort. The sign advertises rooms, hot and cold water baths, meals, camp sites, and tourist kitchens. Caption reads: "Eve... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across road of cottage with a screened porch in a wooded area. Picnic tables are on the left. A bench is in front of the cottage. A row of planters in... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of a camp with a row of small cabins on the left. Automobiles parked between the last three. Some people standing in the driveway -- a man with a ba... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The Coldwater Canyon Hotel tennis court, with two men playing tennis. |
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| Description: | View across road towards the stone steps leading up a hill to the main building of the Birchcliff Hotel. A lawn swing is on top of the hill to the left of ... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five riders on horses posing on the road in front of two guest cottages. A young girl is standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the entrance drive of the Grandview Hotel. There is a large signboard advertising the amenities; rooms with baths, hot and cold water, cottages and... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the main office at Nettland's Roll Inn. The building is of chink log construction with the round logs overlapping at the ends. Can... |
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| Description: | People playing croquet on a lawn next to tennis courts. In the background on the left, people are relaxing under trees across the road. Cottages are in the... |
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| Description: | View of the entrance drive to the Grand View Hotel with stone columns and stones framing the drive. Two men are posed near the right columns, and a three p... |
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| Description: | A collection of images from Nettland's Roll Inn and other sites around the Dells including: the Narrows, Stand Rock, Lone Rock, and the beach at Lake Delto... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from road of a guest house with a large porch. A large sign on the lawn in front advertises running water in the rooms and a rate of $1 ... |
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