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Photograph

Rocky Arbor #123

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Description: A man at the bottom of a canyon at Rocky Arbor park. Text at left: "A Trip Through the Dells of the Wisconsin."
Drawing

Petroglyph Tracing

Date: 06 1879
Description: Tracing of a cave petroglyph depicting a human figure wearing headgear. A club is depicted to the right of the figure.
Photograph

Apostle Islands

Date: 1932
Description: Lake view of Apostle Islands sandstone caves along the shores of Lake Superior.
Photograph

McSherry Cave

Date: 07 1929
Description: View uphill towards the entrance to the McSherry Cave. A woman is standing at the entrance. Trees and shrubs are growing on top of the cave.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Looking Northwest From Cave — Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1929
Description: View from entrance of a cave looking out to the Mississippi River, a railroad bridge, all surrounded by a forest. There is a small island in the river.
Postcard

Exit Hall — North Cave

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the stairs leading to the exit of Cave of the Mounds.
Postcard

The Hall of Statuary in the South Section at Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Photographic postcard view down a path past stalagmites.
Postcard

The Parrot — A Stalgmite Formation at the Entrance to the Narrows at the Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a stalagmite surrounded by smaller stalagmites.
Postcard

The Narrows

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Description: Photographic postcard view of interior of cave with large stalagmites and dozens of stalactites.
Postcard

The Surprise Room Opened in 1957 — Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Stalactite-rich rooms of the Cave of the Mounds.
Postcard

The Pendulum — Cave of the Mounds

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a stalactite connected to stalagmites on the floor. Smaller stalactites surround it.
Postcard

Cordova Castle in Eagle Cave

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Description: Postcard view of rock structure known as Cordova Castle in Eagle Cave. Caption reads: "'Cordova Castle,' Eagle Cave, Highway 60, Muscoda, Wis."
Postcard

Marquette State Park, The Sand Caves

Date: 1914
Description: Postcard for Marquette Park in Grant County, number 4706 in a series by E.A. Bishop of Racine. The caption on the back of the postcard reads: "The pictures...
Postcard

Cave at Irvine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Sunlit opening of a large carved out man-made cave with a park bench in the foreground in Irvine Park. The figure of a woman in the cave is obscured by sha...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

McSherry Cave

Date: 07 1929
Description: View uphill towards the entrance to the McSherry Cave. A woman is standing at the entrance. Trees and shrubs are growing on top of the cave.

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