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Black Earth Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
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Olin Park Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
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Baraboo Campground

Date: 1925
Description: The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep...
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Baraboo Campground

Date: 1925
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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Modern Rooms — E.F. Lueth

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi...
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Panoramic Resort at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1925
Description: View of two-seat lawn swings amid trees on a lawn. Cabins are along a hill in the background. There is an information center on the far left.
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The Great North Woods Tourist and Fishing District of Wisconsin : Ideal Location For Summer Homes

Date: 1925
Description: This brochure intended for tourists and shows resorts, lakes and railroads in northwestern Wisconsin and part of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Two inset maps...
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Entrance to Congress Hall

Date: 1925
Description: A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property.
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Lake, River, and Forest Recion [sic] of Sawyer County, Wisconsin : The Summer Playground of the Middle West

Date: 1925
Description: This 1925 map of the northern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, railroads, and lakes and streams i...
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Marinette Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: Stand of pine trees and pitched tents, with automobiles, in the Marinette Tourist Camp.
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D.H. Colburn Furnished Cottages

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of two of the Colburn guest cottages. A lake or pond is in the background.
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Meadow Brook Resort on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: View across lawn of the main building of Meadow Brook Resort. An automobile is parked in the drive and a group of young women are posed sitting in front of...
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Meadow Brook Resort on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of Meadow Brook Resort. The main building is on the right, and the annex is on the left. People are relaxing on the lawn under the trees. The...
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Meadow Brook Resort on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view from hill of Meadow Brook Resort. The main building is on the left and the annex is on the right. There is an automobile parked in the drivew...
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Furnished Rooms — Mirror Lake Bathing Beach

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of main building at Mirror Lake Bathing Beach Resort, a two-story structure with a porch on the left.
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Cottage at Mirror Lake Bathing Beach

Date: 1925
Description: Three-quarter view of a small cottage at Mirror Lake Bathing Beach, with a screened-in porch and small trees in the yard.
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Van Hill Stand on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: Vending stand on Highway 13 near Van Hill Cabins. A man stands near an automobile parked in the road in front, and three girls are gathered on benches unde...
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Pioneer Cabin

Date: 1925
Description: The "Pioneer Cabin" at Van Hill Cabins, with two entrances and log columns on the porch. A stone chimney is on the right.
Poster

New Mexico and Arizona Rockies

Date: 1925
Description: An original lithograph of a woman buying a necklace from a Native American man. Horseback riders are in the distance. Text at bottom reads: "Land of Histor...
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The Buckhorn

Date: 1925
Description: Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-...

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