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| Date: | 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the wood trellis fence and columns that frame the entrance gate to the Silver-Dale Resort. A group of people are sitting on the porch of a refreshm... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the entrance to Devil's Lake State Park. There is an information center offering gas, food, and Blatz beer. Two storekeepers and a boy sit on the p... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of two-seat lawn swings amid trees on a lawn. Cabins are along a hill in the background. There is an information center on the far left. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | View down a dirt street. Cars are parked at the curbs along the shops. The shops include a post office, Ford repair shop, and furniture/rug store. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin. |
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| Description: | A hexagon-shaped chapel along the dirt road. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Village Inn; featuring a "Hotel" sign, vines along the screened porch windows, and a fenced garden. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View across railroad crossing of the Dennison House hotel. A man is sitting on the porch. The building features a widow's walk. There is a bluff in the far... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street, with an automobile coming down the street. There is a soda/ice cream shop which offers tobacco, cigars, and candy. The City ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across road of a gas station and restaurant on Highway 61. There is a man in a pickup truck, and another man has his foot propped on the truck's step.... |
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| Description: | View down middle of street towards the railroad crossing at Military Road. There are shops on the left and right, and trees line the street in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Mirror Lake from a deck truss bridge. On both sides of the lake are boathouses and tour boats. Steep cliffs lined with trees and plants... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Rock formations at Congress Hall on the Dell View Resort property. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property. |
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| Description: | Main Street scene. The shops include a harness shop, bank, drug store, and the Bay State House. A woman stands in the open doorway of the drugstore across ... |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view from bluff. Far below is Main Street and the Mississippi River. The Bay State House facade can be seen among the buildings lining Main Stre... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Bay State House hotel. The building features three stories, a porch, a balcony, and a gable roof. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cottage, with a spinning wheel on the porch, at the Bonnie View Resort near Devil's Lake. |
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