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Drawing

Lakeside House

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Description: Illustration of the Lakeside House.
Postcard

Main Lodge at Old Mission Inn

Date: 1937
Description: Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965.
Photograph

Fountain House

Date: 1878
Description: Exterior view of the Fountain House.
Postcard

Bethesda Spring

Date: 1905
Description: View of the Bethesda Spring. Caption reads: "Bethesda Spring, Waukesha, Wis."
Photograph

Two Women on Lawn of Large Estate

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Description: Two women pose on the lawn in front of a large estate. The building, with a large, wrap-around porch, and clock tower, was probably used as a resort or hot...
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: View across lawn, with a driveway on the left leading to the Bedford Springs Resort. Children and adults are relaxing outdoors. The hotel was built in 1806...
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: Exterior view of the Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806. A car at the entrance is under a second-story walking bridge that leads to a large, balcony wit...
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: View across the lawn toward the porches and balconies of the Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806.
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: View of Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806, taken from the veranda. A row of arched columns spans the length of the veranda between the front of the bui...
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: Exterior of Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806. The view is from one end of a colonnade, with a band performing near a door that leads into the resort b...
Photograph

Bedford Springs Resort

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Description: View of a walkway at Bedford Springs Resort, built in 1806. From one end of the collonade, a man can be seen standing while other people sit in chairs and ...
Photograph

Bluff House

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Description: Adults and children read newspapers and books while sitting on chairs on the lawn outside Bluff House. The house is on the right, featuring a porch, balcon...
Photograph

Jack Frost Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: View from lawn down hill looking through trees towards a pavilion, with a weathervane on the roof, on the shore of Round Lake. The far shoreline is in the ...
Postcard

Moore's Lakeside Resort on Brown's Lake

Date: 07 18 1915
Description: Black and white postcard of Moore's Lakeside Resort on Brown's Lake. Staff and/or visitors are posing on the front porch and on the lawn. The wrap-around b...
Photograph

Log Cabin at Fish Lake Resort

Date: 1927
Description: A log cabin, which features a screened-in porch and attic door.
Photograph

Voss' Birchwood Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: View of a two-story gabled roof lodge, Voss' Birchwood Lodge on Spider Lake. It has a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front porch and is su...
Photograph

Northern Lakes Hotel

Date: 1931
Description: View across yard of three people standing on the porch of the two-story Northern Lakes Hotel on Rest Lake. There is a stone chimney and brickwork around th...
Photograph

Jack Frost Lodge No. 1 on Round Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view through trees of the Jack Frost Lodge No. 1 on Round Lake. Three-quarter length view of the two-story building with a wraparound porch on the...
Print

Sanatorium Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Sanatorium Company, with a three-quarter view of the sanatorium building set into a background of flowers and banners proclaiming the ben...
Photograph

Chateau at Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1930
Description: A man and four women pose at the exterior of a log cabin with a "chateau" sign over the entrance.

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