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| Date: | 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of people waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. Caption reads: "Scene at Gill's Rock Landing, Door County... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Memorial to the Moravians who arrived in Eagle Bay in 1853. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Official highway map of Wisconsin, "the playground of the Midwest," showing the state transportation network prior to World War II. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Monument in Juneau Park. A man is sitting on a bench, with Lake Michigan behind. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the club. A mast with flags stands outside of the club on the pier. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building from shoreline looking out to Lake Michigan. Along the pier are numerous docked boats and sailboats moored in water. On the left autom... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from hill of the yacht club, with Lake Michigan behind. In the distance is the jetty, and the road along the shoreline is N. Lincoln Memorial Drive. T... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Skyline view, from across the water towards the lakefront. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map of southeastern Wisconsin depicts the Rock and Milwaukee rivers and the Kettle Moraine area. Cities and villages are identified. Stamp stating "Po... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A map of the area south of Ripon and Sheboygan and east of Waterloo and Janesville, showing the route of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad in... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin counties, towns, cities, and selected villages, as well as the Menominee Indian Reservation are identified on this U.S. Bureau of the Census map ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The photographer's daughter, Helen Hotz Schmid, left, and granddaughter, Margaret Schmid, right, pose at water's edge with Nenn Steck Hotz at Toft Point ne... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A sailboat is moored to a wooden pier at North Bay. There is an old wooden building in the background across a marsh area. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A map shows early settlers by name and date, industries, the Chicago & North Western rail line, roads, and depths and net lines in Lake Michigan. Text prov... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A map showing the roads, railroads, towns, cities and villages, streams and lakes, airports, schools, churches, cemeteries, and golf courses in Kenosha Cou... |
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