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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells." |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of a group of women and one man. The guests of the hotel are relaxing under the trees on the lawn of the resort. A man and a woman are hol... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman with a toddler looks out of the entrance to a birch wigwam. In the foreground is a campfire with cooking pots and pails. There is tent in t... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight Native American men pose around the two-story stucco sided Pueblo Home. They are all wearing traditional dress, with four wearing headdresses, and on... |
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| Description: | Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man wearing strings of beads, a silver bracelet and a headdress. He is holding a bow and arrows. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat pushes a rig similar to a horse mill to give four children a ride on a merry go round in the Columbus Park. The children are seated on ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View up slope towards two small cottages at the Coldwater Canyon Hotel. A man with a tennis racket is seated on the porch of the cottage on the left. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Group of people posed on the steps and porch of a cottage. The cottage has a wrap-around porch, and there is a swing between two trees on the left. A man a... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The Coldwater Canyon Hotel tennis court, with two men playing tennis. |
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| Description: | View across lawn of the main building of the Birchcliff Hotel and the tree-lined drive. Vacationers are relaxing on the porch and the lawn. |
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| Description: | Screened-in porch at the Birchcliff Hotel, with chairs, porch swing and settees. |
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| Description: | View across road towards the stone steps leading up a hill to the main building of the Birchcliff Hotel. A lawn swing is on top of the hill to the left of ... |
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| Description: | Two men playing tennis on the Birchcliff Hotel tennis court. Another group of guests are playing croquet on the lawn in the background. People relax on cha... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Guest cottage built of brick with swing in the yard. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of the main building and grounds at Butternut Lodge. Three young children are on are a lawn swing, and a man sits in a chair nearby. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five riders on horses posing on the road in front of two guest cottages. A young girl is standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Men and boys fishing at Jordan Lake. One man is standing next to a boat pulled up at the shore and is holding up his catch of the day. There are cattails a... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from hill of Jordan Lake. Two people are fishing in a rowboat below, and the wooded far shoreline is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two Colburn Cottages on a shoreline of the Wisconsin River. In the yard a man is posing in front of an automobile near a dog standing on its haunches. Ther... |
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