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Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor...
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Tourist Park

Date: 1927
Description: A cylinder-shaped cement building with an open door in a rural area. In front of the building is a picnic table, and on the right an automobile is parked n...
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Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1927
Description: A man and woman sit on a bench outside a cabin at the Dells Farm Resort. A chair, hammock, lawn swing and table are on the lawn.
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Picnic Grounds in Olin Park

Date: 1927
Description: Picnic area of Olin Park, where a woman reads a newspaper on a park bench.
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Main Building, the "Black Oaks at the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: Three-quarter view of the main building. A woman us standing on the porch holding a broom, and a bicycle is parked at the bottom of the stairs. Tennis rack...
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The Black Oaks Cottages at the Dells — E. Broadway, Kilbourn

Date: 1927
Description: Two small wood-frame cottages behind the main building at Black Oaks. A section of the porch of the main building is on the far right.
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Mrs. H.E. Heitman — Rooms in Privat [sic] Home

Date: 1927
Description: Exterior view of a house in a residential neighborhood with a large screened-in porch, and a bench and a lawn swing in the front yard.
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Nettland's Roll Inn on Highway 16 "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: View across road towards the main office at Nettland's Roll Inn. The building is of chink log construction with the round logs overlapping at the ends. Can...
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Oak Grove Camp Ground

Date: 1927
Description: Four young people standing in front of the main office and general store at the Oak Grove Campground. A sign on a tree reads: "Fresh milk, cream, eggs and ...
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Oak Grove Camp Ground

Date: 1927
Description: View of the camp sites under the trees at Oak Grove Campground. Two men stand near a tent on the left.
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Riverview Free Campground

Date: 1927
Description: The campsites among the trees and tall grass at Riverview Campground. A few tents are set up, and a group of guests are around a picnic table.
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Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: Group portrait of family sitting on a bench in the foreground in front of a guest cottage. One boy sits on a porch railing behind the group. There is an au...
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Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: The grounds at Springhill Cottages, with four cottages on the hill in the background. There is a person sitting on a chair inside an open-sided building in...
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Spruce Lawn Housekeeping Cottages

Date: 1927
Description: Two-story cottage with a built-in garage. There is a young vine over the roofed entrance, and a bench and potted plant near the garage door.
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are sitting on a park bench and listening to the insurance agent (Eugene Pallette) as he explains an insurance policy he is tr...
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel is signing an insurance policy held by the insurance agent (Eugene Pallette) while Oliver Hardy is looking on. Hardy has ink splashed on his fa...
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City Park

Date: 1927
Description: Large group of people gathered in a centrally located park, with a row of shops across the street. There is a gazebo under the trees on the right. Caption ...

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