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| Date: | 12 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "I Will Write a Letter From Shullsburg But Not To-night". This postcard is a combination of artwork and a photograph. A drawing of an ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Clam Lake From Camp Northland, Siren, Wis." Four people are in a rowboat and two more are fishing at the end of the pier. Several more rowb... |
| Date: | 07 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Little Sister and Sister Bays, Sister Bay, Wis." A view from a hill of the shoreline of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "P.L. Wegner Summer Home. S.T.H. 71. Sparta, Wisc." The Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto aka The Glass Chapel, a concrete structure with a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ann Mitchell Library-Tower Hill, Wis." A one-story, wooden building with a wrap-around veranda and broad front steps surrounded by tr... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Wisconsin River Bridge, Spring Green, Wis." A truss bridge with eight spans over the Wisconsin River on State Highway 14. The bridge ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green." On the reverse it reads: "Be It Ever So Humble..." A Native American man dressed in indigenous clothing... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tower Hill, Spring Green, Wis." View across water towards a rocky formation along the Wisconsin River in Tower Hill State Park. |
| Date: | 01 25 1913 |
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| Description: | The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a shingle style building, de... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Group of Buildings of State Sanatorium, Statesan, Wis." A view of the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, also known as “Statesa... |
| Date: | 12 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene near Stetsonville, Wis." A man follows a herd of sheep through a pasture bounded by a split rail fence with supports. In the di... |
| Date: | 02 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair... |
| Date: | 08 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Big Manitou Falls, Ht. 165 Ft., Pattison State Park, Superior, Wis." The falls are on the Black River and surrounded by shrubs and ro... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Fishermans Shack, Wis Point, Superior Wis." A man peers around the corner of his tar paper covered fishing shack on Wisconsin Point. ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Mary's Lake, Townsend. Wis." A rowboat and bench on the shore of a lake, and trees along the far shoreline. Mary's Lake is southwest ... |
| 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... |
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