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| Date: | 06 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Webster, Wis." A tree-lined rural road in northwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 19 1909 |
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| Description: | A sailboat on a lake with a wooded shoreline in the distance. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tennis Court, Timmer's Shore." Two men playing tennis on the lawn at a resort on Big Cedar Lake. Trees and the lake are in the backgr... |
| 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: | 01 13 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18... |
| Date: | 09 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse: "Greetings, White Lake, Wis. First Cast of the Day." Two fisherman, facing in opposite directions, cast their lines into the water from a ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Long Lake. Woodlands. Wild Rose, Wis." A man and women are seated on a bridge-like platform over an inlet on Long Lake. The platform ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Long Lake. Woodlands. Wild Rose, Wis." View across lake towards a bridge-like platform in front of a cottage on Long Lake. The platfo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "State Trout Hatchery, Wild Rose, Wis." The Fish Hatchery was built in 1908. View along hedge line and lawn towards the hatchery build... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Text on front: "The Hiawatha. Crossing the Wisconsin River at the 'Dells'." On reverse: "The Scenic Route. The Milwaukee Road is the only double tracked ro... |
| Date: | 04 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Overhanging Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin River." View of the Wisconsin River from under a rock shelf. The shoreline in the foreground... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rattlesnake Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin River." On reverse: "Up stream from the Narrows, on the left bank, is Rattlesnake Rock. Look... |
| Date: | 07 28 1980 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Lost Canyon, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." Tourists ride in a modern day horse-drawn buggy through Lost Canyon. Rock formations towe... |
| Date: | 09 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "The Original Dells Duck Tour. After descending the rock walled, fern covered trails, your Duck enters the beautiful Lower Dells of ... |
| 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... |
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