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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A movable billboard aimed at passing motorists along State Highway 20 in Illinois. It reads "Relax in Wisconsin, Where Friends and Nature Meet." Although... |
| 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: | 04 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in front of the Lake Delton airport hangar with a windsock on the roof. Automobiles are parked inside the hangar. On the right is a fu... |
| Date: | 05 21 1935 |
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| Description: | International Model C-1 truck parked in front of Edmonton capitol building in Alberta, Canada. The truck was used to promote tourism in Alberta and is pain... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior from road of Minirama at 115 Broadway. |
| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Road signs for Lake Delton, Hotel Crandall and Pure oil. |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Finland Cabins featuring a steam bath. There is a large woodpile at one side of the building. |
| Date: | 08 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Part of a crowd of over 3000 that toured Stonefield, the Historical Society's site at Cassville, during an open house. The building that housed the State ... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". |
| Date: | 06 29 1937 |
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| Description: | An International D-40 truck used by the Brennan Paving Company is parked in a paved lot in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, while a group of men work in the... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the excursion steamer Eleanor in the Dells. |
| Date: | 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Two men with cameras around their necks stand near a couple in a Plymouth pulling an airstream camper through a gate. The sign on the gate in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 05 25 1963 |
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| Description: | An interior view of Treasure City, a souvenir shop on a highway which travels north from Chicago, Illinois. Nets of sea shells, displays of jewelery, and m... |
| Date: | 05 24 1950 |
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| Description: | A view of downtown, including the official Dells ticket office. In the foreground a man is sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, and other pedestrians ar... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cowboy hat and a hip holster stands on a dirt road as a line of International Scout trucks passes by. A series of shops, restaurants, and o... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | The large, ornamental office building of Thomas Cook and Sons on the waterfront in Hong Kong. The firm was one of the oldest and largest travel companies i... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a man standing on a road near a sign reading "Tours" and consulting a guide book. |
| Date: | 04 13 1925 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of people standing beneath the trees at Ottawa Park Tourist Camp. Automobiles are parked in the background, and tents are set up throug... |
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