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Jeannette Holt Doing Laundry

Date: 1918
Description: Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an...
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Boats Heading Out

Date: 1916
Description: Three boats, each filled with people, are leaving the pier. Two household employees, wearing aprons and standing on the pier, are watching the boats depart...
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Island Lodge Pastime

Date: 1918
Description: View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ...
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Sitting on the Beach with a Bird

Date: 1931
Description: Peter DeWitt and a friend or cousin are sitting on the sand beach near logs. A bird is perched nearby on a wooden pier.
Postcard

Wisconsin's North Coast

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Wisconsin's North Coast." A man is standing on the side deck of a boat, and in the distance is the Raspberry Island Lighthouse with a...
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Lone Rock

Date: 07 12 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Lone Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin." A view of Lone Rock from below, with a canoe on the right-hand side, near the shore.
Postcard

Down River from Round Bluff

Date: 08 25 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Down River from Round Bluff, Prairie Du Sac, Wis." A view of the Wisconsin River with buildings and a road along the left shoreline. ...
Postcard

Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Sawyer Harbor and Cabot's Point from Tower, Potowatomi State Park, Door County, Wis." Elevated view across Sawyer Harbor towards Stur...
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Zerk Family Christmas Card

Date: 
Description: A holiday card featuring Lake Dunmovin on the Zerk estate. The mansion is in the background on the left. On the opposite shoreline on the right is an arche...
Postcard

Greetings from Tomahawk

Date: 1955
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Tomahawk, Wisconsin." A aerial view showing the city and Lake Mohawksin on the Wisconsin River.
Postcard

Lone Rock

Date: 10 01 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Lone Rock. Lower Dells, Wis." The tour boat "Josephine" from the Dells Boat Company glides past an island rock formation. Trees and f...
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Lone Rock

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Lone Rock. Lower Dells of the Wisconsin River. Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." A tour boat glides past an island rock formation, with ...
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Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a...

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