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Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Photograph

Warrens Cranberry Fest

Date: 1998
Description: Not only does the cranberry industry produce cranberries, but it is also a source of tourists during the colorful harvest season.
Photograph

Observation Tower

Date: 
Description: View across road of an observation tower overlooking extensive apple orchards, a tourist attraction in season. Many people are standing below the tower whe...
Postcard

Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Colorized postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A man sits on a wagon chassis. He is wearing an ethnic costume. Various buildings are visible surrounded by...
Postcard

Scene at Little Norway

Date: 07 20 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A log building stands to the left and the chassis of a wagon to the right. Text below reads: "Scene at L...
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

Date: 
Description: Exterior of a gas station/restaurant and the entrance to the Triangle Tourist Park.
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

Date: 1928
Description: Exterior view of gas station/restaurant outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers Red Crown brand gasoline, Coney Island Red Hots, hot co...
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park US-18

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view from road of gas station and "dine and dance" restaurant on Highway US-18/US-12, outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers ...
Photograph

Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Judith 7, and Barbara, 4, daughters of Dr. and Mrs Richard MacLean of Sheridan, Wyoming, watching cows being milked in the milking parlor at the Bowman Dai...
Photograph

Camp Indianola

Date: 1929
Description: A group of young boys with their male camp counselors are sitting and standing around the split-rail fence. There is a log cabin and a cornfield in the bac...
Photograph

Log Cabin at Brady's Lodge

Date: 1927
Description: One-room log cabin at Brady's Lodge in a open are with tall grass. Two young trees are along the cabin on the right.
Photograph

Brady's Lodge

Date: 1927
Description: Filling station and office at Brady's Lodge. An attendant is standing by the gas pump. There is a truck parked on the right. Signs on the left read: "Sandw...
Photograph

Nettland's Roll Inn on Highway 16 "At the Dells"

Date: 1929
Description: View down road with the Nettland's Roll Inn on the right. An automobile is coming down the dusty road towards the inn, which has an "EAT" sign handing over...
Book or Pamphlet

Knott's Berry Place Tea Room Menu

Date: 
Description: Front cover and menu pages from Knott's Berry Place, with multi-colored boysenberries suspended over rows of plants in the fields, and parked cars lined up...
Postcard

Cherry Picking Scene, Door County

Date: 1920
Description: Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries.
Postcard

Door County Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: Envelope cover. Inside are eighteen color enhanced photographic scenes from Door County, Wisconsin, including a short description of Door County features t...
Postcard

Old Wade House; Summer Kitchen

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of a mannequin of a women wearing period dress ironing in the summer kitchen. Dried corn is strung up near the ceiling. Text on reve...
Photograph

Beloit Tourism Center

Date: 1967
Description: View of the Beloit Tourism Center. Women and children are walking to and from the building. A child is drinking from an outdoor water-fountain (bubbler) on...
Photograph

Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...
Poster

Fast Film Finishing at Trumble's Dell Photography

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Description: Advertisement for John Trumble's photography studio which, at the time, also included an art gallery and a store for camera supplies and antiques. The post...

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