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"Apollo No. 1" Steamboat and Passengers

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Description: View of bow of "Apollo No. 1" steamboat with passengers posing near a dock on the shoreline.
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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
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Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama

Date: 09 1959
Description: Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama. The man on the left is a banker, the man with eyeglasses is Ted Saunders, and the women are Ruth Bennett Dye...
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Paul Blaugh and Minirama Underwater Engines

Date: 06 1964
Description: Paul Blaugh posing with the underwater electric engines that pulled boats on model river for Minirama.
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1955
Description: H.H. Bennett Studio Christmas portrait of two women, Miriam and Ruth, daughters of H.H. Bennett, and one man, Oliver Reese, posed with many cameras, some o...
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Entrance to Schofield Cottage Hotel

Date: 1929
Description: A group portrait at the entrance to the Schofield Hotel. A man and five women pose near a parked car at the hotel entrance sign. The sign listed J.A. Smith...
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Scofield Cottage Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: A man and woman sit across from one another on an enclosed porch at the Scofield Cottage Hotel.
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Dogs Eating Ice Cream

Date: 07 1956
Description: Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree...
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Fitzgerald's Resort

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Description: A man, a nun sit on a bench with an owl perched on the back of the bench between them. Three women stand behind them on the lawn of a resort.
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Van Hill Stand on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: Vending stand on Highway 13 near Van Hill Cabins. A man stands near an automobile parked in the road in front, and three girls are gathered on benches unde...
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Ellsworth H. Brown

Date: 06 13 2015
Description: Modern tintype, full length, formal portrait, of Ellsworth H. Brown, Ph.D., The Ruth and Hartley Barker Director, Wisconsin Historical Foundation. Developm...
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Man Posing on Devil Statue in Wisconsin Dells

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Description: A man is posing in a running profile on top of one of two stone gargoyles that flanks an historical marker for the Dawn Manor in the Wisconsin Dells. Dedic...
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John Trumble with Camera

Date: 1958
Description: Wisconsin Dells commercial photographer, John Trumble, with his Hasselblad. He is standing in front of Hurlbut Creek, probably in spring. Jack Grey, head o...

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