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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | President Calvin Coolidge fishing at Cedar Island Lodge, rustic lodge of Henry C. Pierce, 35 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Brule River. This lodge... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the main building in the distance, and in the foreground a golf course of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Bldg., Moor (Mud) Baths, Wauke... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View woards spring house and lagoon. Caption reads: "Spring House and Lagoon at the Moor (Mud) Baths, Waukesha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the main building of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Building, Waukesha Moor (Mud) Bath Co., Waukesha, Wis. 'Open all the year 'round.'" |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of people sitting on the porch of the golf club house at the Moor Bath Links. Caption reads: "Club House, Waukesha Golf Club on Moor Bath Links, Wauke... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the living room in the Buck Inn at Lost Lake Resort. Caption reads: "In The Living Room t Lost Lake Resort". |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Buck Inn at Lost Lake Resort. Caption reads: "Buck Inn At Lost Lake Resort, Sayner, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cistercian Abbey of Cistercian Fathers, Our Lady of Spring Bank in winter. Formerly a resort hotel on Oconomowoc Lake, called Spring Bank. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h... |
| Date: | 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the wood trellis fence and columns that frame the entrance gate to the Silver-Dale Resort. A group of people are sitting on the porch of a refreshm... |
| 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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This brochure intended for tourists and shows resorts, lakes and railroads in northwestern Wisconsin and part of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Two inset maps... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A cottage with a "Hill-Side" sign. An outhouse is to the right of the cottage. There is a path up the hill on the left. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A log cabin, which features a screened-in porch and attic door. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A cylinder-shaped cement building with an open door in a rural area. In front of the building is a picnic table, and on the right an automobile is parked n... |
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