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Wisconsin Tourism Sign

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Description: Group of resort and hotel owners gathered in front of a Wisconsin tourism sign that reads: "Relax In Wisconsin." There is a building in the background.
Postcard

Cottage Interior, Medicine Lake Lodge

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Description: Cottage interior with a large window looking out on the lake. Caption reads: "Typical Cottage Interior, Medicine Lake Lodge, Three Lakes, Wis."
Photograph

Elevated View of Lumbertown Street

Date: 1897
Description: Lumbertown Street (Now Highway 47). There are horse-drawn carts and a car. Sailors burned down Lumbertown in 1897. It was later built up as a resort town....
Photograph

People on Porch of General Store

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Description: Store includes a Post Office, owned by Cyrus Yawkey. Men, child, and two dogs are on the porch.
Photograph

Minocqua Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: According to the Minocqua Times, work on this yellow-glazed brick station, which stands at 329 Front Street, began in late 1931.
Postcard

Whippoorwill Cottage

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Description: Exterior view of the Whippoorwill cottage at Styza's Birchwood Lodge on Garth Lake. A black automobile is parked in front of the building and trees surroun...
Postcard

Shady Rest Cottage

Date: 1937
Description: Exterior view of Shady Rest Cottage at Lake Breeze Resort. The building has a stone chimney and there is a wooden bench swing in the front yard. Caption re...
Map or Atlas

Rhinelander, Wisconsin : The Center of the Lake District of Northern Wisconsin [and] the Great Fishing and Summer Resort Region of the State

Date: 1915
Description: This 1915 map shows railroads, wagon roads, trails, creeks, rivers, lakes, and trout streams in Oneida and Lincoln counties within a 12 mile radius of Rhin...
Map or Atlas

Three Lakes Area Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map of Three Lakes shows forest fire lookout towers, picnic grounds, an airport, roads, and railroad. The map features text boxes on the Village of Th...
Postcard

Mann's Resort, Trout Lake

Date: 08 06 1911
Description: A postcard sent by C.L. (Neal) Harrington to his sister Alice Harrington in Hurley, Wisconsin. A young man is standing near a fence on the right, and behin...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Lower Kaubashine Canoe Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several scenes from a canoe trip on the Lower Kaubashine Creek. Includes photographs of Joy Camps canoes on...
Print

Wisconsin Hotel Co. Notehead

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Description: Notehead of the Wisconsin Hotel Company, with three-quarter views of three hotels it operated: The Foeste in Sheboygan, The Oneida in Rhinelander, and The ...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Territory 4 Miles North, 8 miles East, 7 Miles South, and 6 Miles West of Harshaw, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows logging roads, railroads with spur lines, trails, rapids, lumber camps, Indian villages, summer resort, lakes, rivers, and ponds.
Map or Atlas

Minocqua Region, Top o' Wisconsin : The World's Most Concentrated Lake Region

Date: 1940
Description: This map shows lakes, roads, car trails, foot trails, railroads, resorts and camps, and fire towers. The map includes an inset location map and pictorial d...
Photograph

Coffee Break

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Description: A line of snowmobiles parked in front of a restaurant.
Photograph

Fire Garage

Date: 1937
Description: A one and one half story masonry block building with five bays with open doors stands in a wooded area. A track vehicle on a trailer is hitched behind a l...
Photograph

Out for Sunday Dinner

Date: 1935
Description: View across snowy road towards men and women posing in front of Idlewild Lodge, a two-story wood framed structure with log siding on the first floor, and a...
Photograph

Wisconsin Resort

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of Northernaire Resort, on Deer Lake. The resort is in the foreground. Many lakes, surrounded by trees, are in the background, including Big St...
Postcard

Curley's Tavern

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Description: Interior view of the bar, and an exterior view of the facade. Text reads: "Everybody Goes to . . Curley's Tavern, Minocqua, Wisconsin, Chinese and American...
Postcard

Curley's Tavern

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Description: Exterior view of Curley's Tavern at night. A neon sign on the top of the building reads: "Curley's Tavern, Nite Club" and there are also two neon signs for...

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