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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... |
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| Description: | View out Witches' Gulch of tourist stand, with men sitting in chairs. There is a covered open-air platform beyond. |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Kilbourn railroad depot, with the Park Hotel in the background. There is a water tower on the left next to the depo... |
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| Description: | "Apollo No. 1" steamboat entering Devil's Elbow at Narrows. There is a building in the background with a sign on the roof, probably the Larks Hotel. |
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| Description: | View of bow of "Apollo No. 1" steamboat with passengers posing near a dock on the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Passengers pose on the New Dell Queen steamboat. Steamboat Alexander Mitchell in background. |
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| Description: | Bennett Studio, 200 block of Broadway, Kilbourn, Wisconsin. Post office next door. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the H.H. Bennett Studio storefront, in Kilbourn (former name of the Wisconsin Dells). A display case of Bennett's images is on the wooden ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from road of the Hile House, Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells). There is a belvedere in the center of the roof. Caption reads: "Hile House, Kilbourn, Wis... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from across road of the Hile House. This is where the actress and Confederate spy Belle Boyd died on June 11, 1900, in the front room, over the office... |
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| Description: | Sign for Lost Canyon, with people standing near a car in the foreground. |
| Date: | 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Newman's Drive-In with Free Root Beer sign and waitress. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior from road of Minirama at 115 Broadway. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Large mouse being lifted by crane onto Bennett's Table Talk at 211-213 Broadway. |
| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Road signs for Lake Delton, Hotel Crandall and Pure oil. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Man pumps gas into an automobile at the Consolidated Boat Co. There is advertising for Coca-Cola, Baby Ruth, and Occident Flour on the side of the small fr... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the excursion steamer Eleanor in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Locks and Jaws of the Dells in winter, taken at Devil's Elbow. The roof of the Larks Hotel, with the hotel's name on it, is visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Night view of gift shops, restaurants, and other attractions in a two-story shopping plaza. Several cars are parked along the curb beneath a streetlight in... |
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