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Fort Rider

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Description: Rock formations along the top of Fort Rider. The photographer's wet negative plate equipment is at foot of the rock formation.
Photograph

Fat Man's Misery

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Description: View of Fat Man's Misery.
Photograph

Roche a Cri

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Description: View of a large geological rock formation at the base of a river or lake.
Photograph

"Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge

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Description: Stereograph of the steamboat the "Dell Queen" at Chapel Gorge. A woman and a young child sit on the shoreline.
Postcard

Main Street

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Description: Photographic postcard of Main Street. People, automobiles, and horse-drawn vehicles line the dirt-covered street and sidewalks. A Gold Medal Flour billboar...
Postcard

Rocky Mound Near Adams, Wis.

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Description: Photographic postcard of a geological rock formation. Side view of the snow-covered bluff and rocks surrounded by trees. Two children stand on a ledge next...
Map or Atlas

Map of Adams County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This early 20th century map of Adams County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, lakes an...
Map or Atlas

Outline Map of Adams County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map of Adams County, Wisconsin, from E.B. Foote's Plat book of Adams County, Wisconsin, 1900, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, citi...
Photograph

Cottages at Atcheson's Resort

Date: 1930
Description: View of resort cottages near a lake. A group of vacationers are sitting on the lawn and porch. A birdhouse on a tall post is among trees on the right. Hill...
Postcard

Main Street, North

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Description: View down north Main Street. The Hotel Wrchota is on the left. Horse-drawn vehicles and automobiles are further down the street. A tree-covered hill is in ...
Postcard

Telescopic View Over Friendship and Adams, Wis.

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Description: Elevated view of Friendship, with houses and commercial buildings.
Postcard

Friendship Mound

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Description: View of Friendship Mound — a rocky outcropping, from the road below.
Postcard

Rabbit Rock

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Description: Hand-colored postcard of Rabbit Rock — a rocky outcropping with two towers of stone.
Photograph

Rabbit Rock

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Description: Three young people are standing on Rabbit Rock, two of them in the foreground, and one on top of the taller peak. Highway 13 is below in the background.
Photograph

Fisherman by Power House and Dam

Date: 06 1962
Description: Landscape photograph by Sid Boyum of a fisherman on the bank of Big Spring Creek near a power house and dam. The fisherman to the right blends into the bui...
Photograph

View from Bluff, Roche-a-Cri

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Description: View from a bluff overlooking a glacial drumlin and a hill in the distance. Identified via caption as Roche-a-Cri.
Photograph

At the Dells

Date: 1910
Description: A group of three men and four women, probably members of the Von der Sump family, posing for a casual portrait on a rock formation at the Wisconsin Dells.
Photograph

Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.
Photograph

Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
Postcard

Chimney Rock

Date: 07 09 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Chimney Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin." The rock formation Chimney Rock overhanging the Wisconsin River. Bluffs are on the left and th...

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