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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... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A group portrait at the entrance to the Schofield Hotel. A man and five women pose near a parked car at the hotel entrance sign. The sign listed J.A. Smith... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man and four women pose at the exterior of a log cabin with a "chateau" sign over the entrance. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A man, woman, and child pose by a car near a tourist camping stop. |
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| Description: | Group of four children sitting on a merry-go-round on the lawn of a resort. In the center of the merry-go-round is a sign that reads: Made by Dells Mfg. Co... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells." |
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| Description: | Five men posed on a firetruck in the middle of a street in a business district. Storefronts are in the background on the left and right. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight Native American men pose around the two-story stucco sided Pueblo Home. They are all wearing traditional dress, with four wearing headdresses, and on... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Four people, two men and two women, stand on a pier near an excursion boat on Lake Delton. A sign with flags is on top of the boat and reads: "Lake and Riv... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Group of people posed on the steps and porch of a cottage. The cottage has a wrap-around porch, and there is a swing between two trees on the left. A man a... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Front entrance to the Black Oaks resort. A man is driving an automobile down the drive near two stone walls with columns framing the entrance to the drivew... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the office, filling station and cabin at Brady's Lodge. Two men stand near the gas pumps in front of a porch of an open counter se... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Filling station and office at Brady's Lodge. An attendant is standing by the gas pump. There is a truck parked on the right. Signs on the left read: "Sandw... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Front entrance of a small guest cottage with screened-in porch, surrounded by trees. A sign above the door reads: "Hilltop." |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of one of the larger guest cabins with screened-in porch at Clearwater Cottages. An automobile is parked on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from road of two of the Colburn guest cottages. A lake or pond is in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dells Farm Resort with an elevated view of a multi-room cottage with an outhouse located under the balcony on the right. Two women sit around a table in th... |
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