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Postcard

Narrows Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Narrows Bridge, with a group of people on the left sitting and standing in a boat. The far shoreline is tree covered. Caption reads: "The Narro...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: My Vacation Dream

Date: 1934
Description: A fisherman is reclining in his boat at sunset as many fish swim in the lake. He is drinking beer out of a tap attached to a barrel floating in the water. ...
Photograph

Rice Lake

Date: 
Description: View along shoreline toward a boat sitting along the wooded shore of Rice Lake. Caption reads: "Scene on Rice Lake, Wis."
Photograph

Potato Lake - Campbell's Resort

Date: 1927
Description: Lake view from the shore. A man, son, and two dogs stand at the dock. A herd of swans bathe nearby.
Map or Atlas

The Chetek Lakes : Barron County, Wisconsin, "In the Indianhead Country"

Date: 1969
Description: This map shows businesses, resorts, roads, public boat landings, schools, cemeteries, and location of fish and game. An inset map reads: Continuation along...
Map or Atlas

Turtle Lake, Wisconsin: Dairyland's Gateway to Vacation Land

Date: 1960
Description: This map shows improved town roads, federal highways, county highways, public boat access, public hunting areas, railroads, and lakes in the area around th...
Postcard

Boating on Lake Chetek

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from shoreline looking over the roof of a building in the right foreground towards people in rowboats on Lake Chetek. The far shoreline is th...
Photograph

Collecting Fish Spawn

Date: 04 24 1932
Description: The caption on the reverse of the print reads, "Edward Zitman, Birchwood, and Peter Olson, Madison, obtaining golden wall-eyed pike spawn from Beaver Dam L...
Postcard

Boat Livery

Date: 08 08 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Boat Livery, Rice Lake, Wis." A boathouse with "Boat Livery" painted on it has many rowboats tied up to the moorings. A group of four...

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