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Tennis Courts at King's Gateway Hotel

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Description: View of women playing tennis on a lawn court next to a parking lot. Caption reads: "Tennis Courts at King's Gateway Hotel — Land O' Lakes, Wis."
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Lillian Wheeler Rowing a Boat on Archibald Lake

Date: 1910
Description: Lillian Wheeler is rowing a boat on Archibald Lake. She is looking at the oar. A woman, sitting in the rowboat and wearing a sun hat, is possibly Lillian's...
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The Wedding of Ethel M. Cecil and Werner W. Duecker

Date: 06 18 1919
Description: Bride Ethel M. Cecil and groom Werner W. Duecker are standing with their wedding party, family and friends. Rev E.W. Wright officiated. The Cecil family h...
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Birds Eye View [sic]

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of a town, looking down from a hill across a field, with railroad tracks curving from the right foreground to the left towards the t...
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Fishing Trip

Date: 1916
Description: A group of men are standing in front of the Holt family home on Main Street. Several of the men are holding fishing poles, and they appear ready to go on a...
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Sleigh Ride to Lakewood — At Gillett

Date: 02 03 1912
Description: On the way to Lakewood, the horse-drawn sleigh stops in Gillett for a picnic lunch. Caption reads: "Mr. Chase, Miss Stuart, Miss Le Tourneaux (sp?), Mrs. W...
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The Rex Bar

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Description: People are sitting on stools along the bar, with bartenders behind serving drinks. Signs above the bar read: "Cocktails" and "Liquors." There is a jukebox ...
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Man Working at Trout Lake

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Description: A man is crouching and working on plantings at the nursery. A fence is in the background.
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Toboggan Slide in Backyard

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ...
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Portrait of Eleanor Holt

Date: 01 27 1919
Description: A portrait of Eleanor Holt with her face bathed in natural light, sitting in her hospital room. A pillow case is covering the back of the wooden chair. Wea...
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Mary Livingston Griggs by the Tennis Court

Date: 1956
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing next to the flowered edged fence of the Forest Lodge tennis court. Mary is wearing a dress with a short-sleeved cardigan...
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Dining Room in Main Lodge

Date: 1961
Description: A wood dining room table with a flower bouquet is surrounded by wooden Windsor chairs in a chinked log room with a log beam ceiling. Royal Copenhagen blue ...
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Flower and Vegetable Gardens

Date: 1954
Description: Tall flowers, possibly delphiniums and hollyhocks, grow between a stone wall and a grass path. A vegetable garden grows on the other side of the path, and ...
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Mary Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous...
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Mary Livingston Griggs Canoeing the Namakagon River

Date: 1954
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is sitting in the bow of a canoe as a young male companion paddles them on the Namakagon River. Mary is wearing a white blouse and h...
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Main Lodge Living Room

Date: 1961
Description: A white chinked horizontal-log walls and plank-wood ceiling room that has a large brick fireplace with a deer mount near the top, a long-rifle in the cente...
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Main Lodge Living Room

Date: 1961
Description: White-chinked horizontal log walls in living room looking into the dining room. An animal hide is hanging on wall and bull horns are mounted over the curta...
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Guest House Great Room

Date: 1961
Description: A light colored wood-sided, very tall room with wood support beams. A very tall window with curtains dominates an end wall, and the other wall has large sa...
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Guest House Great Room

Date: 1961
Description: A tall, light-colored wood paneled room with exposed pine beams. A built-in fireplace with birch logs is on an end wall below a painting of ships at battle...
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Main Lodge Dining Room Buffet

Date: 1961
Description: An assortment of Royal Copenhagen blue dishes are arranged on the upper open shelves of an antique wood buffet in the dining room of the main lodge. The co...

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