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Motor Boating

Date: 1940
Description: A motor boat carrying three people is leaving a small wake in the calm waters of Crawling Stone Lake as it heads toward an island. There is a worn wooden p...
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Red Arrow Camp

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t...
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The Sayner Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of a tennis and a shuffleboard court, with Plum Lake in the background. Four men are playing doubles tennis, while other men are playing shuf...
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North End Drive, Rock Lake

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Description: View across dirt road along a lake towards a group of people on the edge of the road looking at the lake. Automobiles are parked on the right along the cur...
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Wheeler Lake, Wheeler Lake Resort

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Description: View across water along shoreline towards a long dock and a raft. A rowboat is turned over on the dock near the tree-lined shoreline. Caption reads: "Wheel...
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Driveway in Cherryland

Date: 1935
Description: Cherry trees in full bloom line an unpaved narrow lane.
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Fishing in the Mill Stream

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man standing on a bank on the right, and two boys standing on a log on the left, are fishing in the mill stream below an old mill. Two b...
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Blackwell Job Corps Conservation Center

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Description: View of the buildings comprising the job center. Caption reads: "Blackwell Job Corps Conservation Center, Laona, Wis." Text on reverse reads: "Right — Pine...
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Menges Resort

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of trees shading the lawn at Menges Resort on Lake Puckaway. There is a two-story wood frame building with a screened porch acro...
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Fox River Locks

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view from shoreline looking downstream at the Fox River locks, with a bridge behind it. A boat is tied along the shoreline just below...
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Fox River Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view from shoreline looking down towards a woman wearing a hat who is sitting and fishing from one of four rowboats tied up at the sh...
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Cottage Scene, Eagle Crest Resort

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view across water towards two waterfront cottages, shaded by birch and other trees. There is a wooden canoe pulled up to the shore on...
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The Edgewater

Date: 1949
Description: Night view of the original Edgewater Hotel located on the corner of Langdon Street and Wisconsin Avenue on the south shore of Lake Mendota. Caption reads: ...
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Veterans Administration Hospital

Date: 1963
Description: Exterior view of a VA Hospital from across a lawn with small trees.
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The Georgian, 216 Langdon Street

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Description: Exterior view of the Georgian style house. The entry is flanked by four columns. Caption reads: "The Georgian, 216 Langdon Street, Madison, Wis."
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Edgewood College

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Description: A Kodachrome postcard of the exterior of Edgewood College. Text on reverse reads: "Edgewood College - Madison, Wisconsin Edgewood is one of Madison's o...
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Bathing Beach at Vilas Park

Date: 1954
Description: Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra.
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Trinity Lutheran Church

Date: 1959
Description: Exterior view of Trinity Lutheran Church.
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Wingspread

Date: 1970
Description: Text on reverse: "Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." Elevated view of the Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr. family residence, "Wingspre...
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Blaesing's Shorewood Vista

Date: 08 25 1945
Description: Text on front reads: "Blaesing's Shorewood Vista, Lake George, Rhinelander, Wis." Along the front of the resort building river rocks are used to cover the ...

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