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Log Dam at Mirror Lake

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view over dam and waterfall of a man in a bathing suit walking in the placid and shallow water above the dam. Behind him a boat is tethered along ...
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High Bridge

Date: 1925
Description: View across water of a deck truss bridge over the dam at Mirror Lake. Timme Mill is on the left side of the lake. There are boats in the foreground, and th...
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High Bridge at Mirror Lake

Date: 1921
Description: View across Mirror Lake. A deck truss bridge crosses the lake high over the dam. Timme Mill, on the left side of the lake, is connected to the bridge. In t...
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Looking up Mirror Lake from High Bridge

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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...
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View from Kirkland Hotel

Date: 1922
Description: View of Devil's Lake from the shore of the Kirkland Hotel, located at the southeast corner of the lake. There is building, perhaps a boathouse, on the shor...
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Devil's Doorway

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Description: Elevated view of Devil's Doorway rock formation. Far below is Devil's Lake and the opposite shoreline with bluffs in the distance.
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Black River — Hell's Half Acre

Date: 1929
Description: View of the rocky Black River.
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Lovers' Lane

Date: 1920
Description: A pedestrian path along the Wisconsin River. An advertisement for J.M. Brophy general store is painted on the rock formations along the path.
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Howard White Thunder — Winnebago Indian Guide — At The Dells

Date: 1929
Description: View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He...
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Louis Bluff from the Oakes Cottages, Highway 13

Date: 1926
Description: View from shoreline, with tree stumps sticking above the waterline, of the Wisconsin River and Louis Bluff from Oakes Cottages.
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Beach at Ravenswood, Hotel Kilbourn

Date: 1927
Description: The Ravenswood beach on the Wisconsin River. A man is piloting an excursion boat as it is pulling away from the shoreline. Two rowboats are pulled up on th...
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Rock Scenery at Walmar Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: View across Wisconsin River of tree-covered bluffs along the shoreline.
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Bathing Beach Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View along shoreline of a bathing beach on the Wisconsin River at Pine Glen Properties. Bathers on sitting on the beach on the left. Four more people are s...

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