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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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Eagle Bluff, Peninsula State Park

Date: 1910
Description: View of the steps leading to Eagle Cave on Eagle Bluff. The bluff received its name from the eagles which formerly nested there. Caption reads: "Scene at E...
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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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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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German Style Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "German Style Beer, Peter Bub Brewery." Pictured on the label are a group of gnomes d...
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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.
Postcard

Monterey Rock

Date: 1907
Description: View of Monterey Rock from the Rock River. There is a cave in the center, and a bridge in the distance.
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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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