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View of Fish Creek Beach

Date: 1912
Description: View looking west from the Hotz property on Fish Creek Beach. The Thorp bathhouse is on the left, with the Welcker bathhouses beyond. There are houses an...
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View of Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: View of Fish Creek from Weborg's Point in Peninsula State Park. The Fish Creek dock with barnlike warehouse is in center right. Behind the dock is the two-...
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Hen Island

Date: 1915
Description: Hen Island is reflected in the water of Fish Creek Bay in this view from Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. The homes and businesses of Fish Creek are i...
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View of Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: View down hill towards a man fishing from the pier at Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek is seen across the bay. Dr. Welcker's Casino is the ...
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Dice Game at Military Air Base

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Soldiers play a crap game at an air base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).
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Scene still with Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland.

Date: 1919
Description: A card dealer watches as Nick Delano (played by Warner Oland) shows Helene (Elsie Ferguson) to the gambling table in a scene still from the 1919 Famous Pla...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
Postcard

Welckers Casino

Date: 1907
Description: Slightly elevated view of a rectangular three-story building with wrap-around porches on the first and second floors. Tables and chairs are on the second f...
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Gambling Raid at Downtown Tavern

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue.

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