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| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men and women, some in bathing suits, pose in front of the Gallop Inn Resort restaurant. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A man and woman sit on a bench outside a cabin at the Dells Farm Resort. A chair, hammock, lawn swing and table are on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor scene at the Dells Farm Resort. Five people pose while seated on lawn furniture outside the cabin. Another woman poses as she is about to hit a cro... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A man, woman, and child pose by a car near a tourist camping stop. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | The entrance way to the Evergreen Resort. The sign advertises rooms, hot and cold water baths, meals, camp sites, and tourist kitchens. Caption reads: "Eve... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Vacationers sitting on wicker chairs on the enclosed porch at the Basswood in Long Lake. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Vacationers in the parlor of the Basswood in Long Lake. A banner on the piano in the background says: "Northern Wis. State Fair." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of resort cottages near a lake. A group of vacationers are sitting on the lawn and porch. A birdhouse on a tall post is among trees on the right. Hill... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across road of cottage with a screened porch in a wooded area. Picnic tables are on the left. A bench is in front of the cottage. A row of planters in... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A view of the Log Cabin Filling Station at a tourist camp. A garage for washing and greasing on the left. Two tall gas pumps. Lamps made of interlaced logs... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four men standing behind a row of fish on a stringer. Two large muskies are in the center. The men are standing in front of a two-story l... |
| 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... |
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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. |
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