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Baseball Park

Date: 1924
Description: View of an empty baseball park with a bluff in the background.
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Olson's Store at Crescent Park

Date: 08 1927
Description: A young boy sits on the dock in front of Olson's store in Crescent Park on Lake Waubesa. Small row boats are arrayed for rental.
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Chapel at Willerup Camp in Cambridge

Date: 1926
Description: Caption reads: "Chapel at Willerup Camp — Lake Ripley — Cambrdige. Wis." The camp was named for the Danish immigrant minister, Christian B. Willerup, who e...
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Black Earth Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
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Olin Park Tourist Camp

Date: 1925
Description: The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
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Baraboo Campground

Date: 1925
Description: Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities.
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Bathing Beach at Squire's Evergreen Retreat

Date: 1932
Description: Group of swimmers in bathing suits along the shores of Lake Delton at Squire's Evergreen Retreat. Onlookers observe the activities: children play in the wa...
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Beach at Devil's Lake

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Description: Children and adults gather at Devil's Lake. Shown at the right is a large water slide.
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A Pretty Residence

Date: 1921
Description: View down road of a row of houses. Young trees are planted along the lot line and supported by wooden posts.
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Brewery

Date: 1920
Description: View across road of a brewery in a residential area. Children are standing on the sidewalk, and on the lawn near a hammock and a lawn swing. A tall industr...
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Beautiful Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: A woman stands with two white dogs among the trees at Effinger Park. The park features benches, a pump, a lawn swing, a gazebo and three cabins.
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Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: Six men and women and two dogs sitting in the shade at the park. A carved bench is in the foreground, and in the background are houses or cabins.
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Cottages at Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: Row of cabins in Effinger Park. Each has a screened back porch. Picnic tables, sling-back chairs, and a parked car are under the trees on the lawn.
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Panoramic Resort at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 1925
Description: View of two-seat lawn swings amid trees on a lawn. Cabins are along a hill in the background. There is an information center on the far left.
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Tourist Free Campground

Date: 1925
Description: An information station advertising: free camping, with hot sandwiches and coffee, and tents and cots for sale. On a utility line pole, there are signs for ...
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Public School

Date: 1931
Description: View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School.
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High School

Date: 1922
Description: View of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple with an A...
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Free Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The entrance to the Carthwaite Park tourist camp and picnic grounds. There is a sign for a filling station 1 mile ahead. A car is parked inside the grounds...
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Tourist Camp Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Looking down from a hilltop of a car parked under a tree. The campground is populated with well-dressed families walking down a path, and their parked cars...
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Bird's-Eye View — Boscobel

Date: 1915
Description: View of town. A cemetery is in the foreground and a race track is in the center.

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