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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Entrance sign and rainbow between two trees in front of several cabins at the Rainbow Cabins. The cabins were located on Route 16 on Vine Street. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on the reverse reads: "The Fern Dell County School at The Pioneer Village Museum at Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Built in 1883 and used every year until 1955... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Clipper 'Winnebago' at the Lower Jaws of the Dells showing Alligator Rock on the upper right hand corner." A ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Pulpit Rock and Baby Grand Piano. The Ducks, Wisconsin Dells." Text on the "Duck" reads: "Amazing Land and Water Dells Tours." The na... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Yellow Thunder at Chimney Rock. Olson Boat Company." The tour boat "Yellow Thunder" with visitors viewing Chimney Rock, a formation o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "North Star at Chimney Rock." The tour boat "North Star" with visitors viewing Chimney Rock, a formation on the shore of the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Fat Man's Misery. Through much of Coldwater Canyon the rock walls are very high and the passage between them is very narrow. The na... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "At the Hawk's Bill, Wisconsin Dells, Wis." Tour boats filled with sightseers on the Wisconsin River. Trees are clinging on the side o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Lone Rock. Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River. Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." A tour boat glides past an island rock formation, with ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Capt. Herb Droste' and the 'Josephine,' Wisconsin Dells, Wis." A tour boat and the captain, moored at the Dells Boat Company dock wi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Red Bird Gorge." A water and land vehicle, called a Duck, squeezes through a narrow gorge full of trees and foliage. A bridge above s... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Real Photo Postcard." A group of sightseers wave to the camera as they travel under a bridge and through a tree shaded gorge in a Duc... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Wisconsin Dells, Wis." A model historical village with a guardhouse flying the American flag in the center, flanked by fences and mor... |
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