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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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dry milk plant with a very tall smokestack. Some trucks are parked on the left. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of the First Baptist Church with stained glass windows. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of a dirt road winding through a forested area. A building is up the hill to the right of the road. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, circa 1929. Camp ground at Indian Hill Pageant near Highway 13. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View looking down the Crawfish River, with a large building with a three-story balcony on the right. A man and a boy are in a boat docked at the steps to t... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, with a horse-drawn vehicle further down on the right. Caption reads: "Genl View of Main St. Maiden Rock, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Mazomanie Post Office and the State Bank on the corner of Broadhead and Hudson. On the left a young girl stands in the dirt road. Further down the block a ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a general store and gas station operated by James Smith. Four people stand posed in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across water along the right side of the Sauk City bridge, erected in 1922 to replace an old toll bridge. tree-covered hills are on the opposite shore... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Strachota Brothers general store and saloon, including people and horses. Caption reads: "Strachota Bros. Gen Store & Saloon, St. Kili... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The Penco Filling Station in Black Earth. Wisconsin. Entrances to the ladies rest rooms in the service stations of this period were typically outside the ... |
| 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: | Car ferry on the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. A ferry has operated at this site since the 1840's. In 1924 the privately owned ferry was replaced by this wo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| 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. |
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