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| Date: | 06 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Evening, Trout Lake, Wisconsin." As the sun sets, a group of men on a pier watch another man in a canoe on the lake. A sailboat is mo... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Shore Line, Camp Osoha for Girls, Trout Lake, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Trout Lake, Wisconsin. A distinguished camp for girls 6 to 18 ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake, Wis." A two-story log building with a rubble stone foundation. The porch and stairs have ornate pin... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Mt. Nebo, Viola, Wis." A rock formation surrounded by trees. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Administration Building State Sanatorium, Wales, Wis." A three-story building with dormers and a porch, surrounded by shrubs and tree... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Karl Zettler Half-Timber Cottage, Ozaukee County Pioneer Village, Waubeka, Wisconsin." Built in 1849, the cottage was moved to the Oz... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Wausaukee, Wis. 'Three of a Kind.'" Three black and white cattle with their heads through openings in a fence, and thr... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on the front: "View from the Top of the Mountain, Elevation 1233 ft. Mt. Morris, Wis." View of trees and fields from the highest point in Waushara Cou... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Mount Morris. Wautoma, Wis." A view of Mount Morris from above the shore of a lake or pond. A dwelling and perhaps a farm can be seen... |
| Date: | 06 13 1955 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Beach at Waushara Resort on Silver Lake, Wautoma, Wis." View of a water slide in the lake from the shore. A tree and a pier with dock... |
| Date: | 07 19 1909 |
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| Description: | A sailboat on a lake with a wooded shoreline in the distance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Harper Lake Resort, Westboro, Wis." Swimming dock with a ladder leading up to a diving platrom on Harper Lake. A rowboat is moored to... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Trout Ponds at the State Hatchery, Wild Rose, Wis." View across ponds lined with trees. In the background on the right are a man and ... |
| Date: | 06 01 1912 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Hunting Scene, Slevenic [sic] Settlement, Willard, Wis." Group portrait of eight hunters with guns, and six deer carcasses hanging from a h... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hilltop, Meinel's Resort, Winchester, Wisconsin." A stamp on the reverse reads: "Timberlane Lodge, 'Formerly Meinel's Resort,' Winche... |
| Date: | 09 18 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "We're Looking for You in Kilbourn Every Day. Why Don't You Hurry?" On reverse: "Landscape Pennant." The postcard has a pennant on the... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Tourists on the "Commander", a Wisconsin Dells tour boat on the Wisconsin River. The shores are lined with rock formations and trees. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Old Bridge and Dell House, built in 1837, Wisconsin Dells." The Dell Bridge, first to span the Wisconsin River at the Narrows, was bu... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Wisconsin Dells. 18 Miniature Postcards from Original Photographs. Stand Rock. Indian Chief." A souvenir view folder containing a group of 18 ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Pulpit Rock and Baby Grand Piano. The Ducks, Wisconsin Dells." Text on the "Duck" reads: "Amazing Land and Water Dells Tours." The na... |
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