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Motorboating at Devils Island

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a wooden in-board motorboat on Lake Superior. Two men are in the front seat, and two bathing beauties are riding in the back wavi...
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Black Hawk Cave

Date: 1907
Description: Black Hawk Cave near Lake Mendota.
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Group Near Cave Entrance

Date: 1910
Description: View of six men, four women, and a boy standing in front of an entrance to a cave in Doling Park.
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Coastal Rock Formations

Date: 1940
Description: View of Anemone Cave and crashing waves, surrounded by coastal rock formations.
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Cave Entrance in Vicksburg

Date: 1902
Description: Cave in a hillside occupied by the Lewis family from May 18 to July 4, 1863, during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg. Hundreds of other caves in the vicin...
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Dining Room at Truitt's Cave

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Description: View of an underground dining room at Truitt's Cave, opened to the public in 1940. Tables and chairs can be seen near a fireplace.
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Lord Cornwallis Cave

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Description: Entrance to the tourist attraction of Lord Cornwallis Cave. The sign above the door reads, "Admission 10¢." Initials are inscribed in the dirt wall.
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Rock Formation

Date: 1932
Description: The entrance to a cave is seen as a dark, circular area at the base of a rugged rock outcropping on the John Kopps farm. John Kopps's son Leland was a stud...
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Bluffs on Shoreline

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Description: View across lake towards steep bluffs. Trees are growing along the shoreline and on the top of the bluffs. At the base of the cliffs in the center is a sca...
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Bluffs and a Cave

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Description: View across water towards trees growing on the steep cliffs of a bluff at the shoreline. There is a cave about halfway up the cliff.
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Rock Formations and River

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Description: View across a river towards rock formations on the far shoreline. Several people are standing in a boat or canoe in a cave on the right.
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Sightseeing by Excursion Boat

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Description: View across water towards people in an excursion boat on a river passing rocky and hilly shoreline covered with trees and plants. There is a man in another...
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Rock Formation

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Description: View along side of cliff towards a rock formation, with what may be a cave inside the rock.
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Watertown Plank Road Historic Marker

Date: 11 01 1955
Description: Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ...
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Inside Cave of the Mounds

Date: 1969
Description: A girl is standing high up among a group of stalagmites in the Cave of the Mounds. Another girl is leaning against a railing on the left.
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Sea Caves

Date: 1920
Description: View across water towards three men and a woman posing while standing in a wooden boat in a sea cave in the Apostle Islands. Rock formations and other sea ...
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Big Sand Cave

Date: 1937
Description: View of the entrance to Big Sand Cave, which according to the caption is located in Nelson Dewey State Park. This dates the image to before 1937, when the ...
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Men in Castle Rock Cave

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Description: Group portrait of four men sitting inside a cave with a low ceiling. One man is holding a flashlight, and one man is smoking a pipe. A caption identifies t...
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Castle Rock Cave

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Description: View of a large chamber in Castle Rock Cave.
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Glynis Johns and Griffith Jones

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Description: Actors Glynis Johns and Griffith Jones, and unidentified crew, on the underwater cave set of the 1948 film "Miranda." Johns is in her mermaid costume. The ...

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