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Postcard

Devil's Monument

Date: 07 23 1912
Description: Colorized postcard of Devil's Monument with trees surrounding it. Text at top reads: "Devil's Monument, Camp Douglas, Wis."
Postcard

Cleopatra's Needle

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Description: Colorized postcard of Cleopatra's Needle with trees all around the base. Text at top reads: "Cleopatra's Needle, Camp Douglas, Wis."
Postcard

Cleopatra's Needle

Date: 
Description: Black and white postcard of Cleopatra's Needle with trees all around the base. Text at top reads: "Cleopatra's Needle, Camp Douglas, Wis."
Postcard

Ragged Rock

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Description: Colorized postcard of Ragged Rock in Mill Bluff State Park. It is an 80 foot tall former bluff whose protective cap was worn away and is eroding in a conic...
Photograph

Footbridge

Date: 1912
Description: A footbridge crossing Fish Creek into Peninsula Stat Park.
Photograph

Peninsula State Park

Date: 1925
Description: A dirt road winds through Peninsula State Park.
Map or Atlas

Map of Grant County, Wisconsin

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Description: A map of Grant County, Wisconsin showing the locations of townships, towns, cities, villages, roads, railroads, schools, cemeteries, churches, rivers, and ...
Map or Atlas

Enjoy the Good Life in Grant County

Date: 1975
Description: A tourist map of Grant County that displays the various activities and attractions found in the cities throughout the county, such as boat landings, fishin...
Photograph

Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Several boats are moored in the protected harbor. An old warehouse stands on a pier. A tall bluff and rock cliff dominates the opposite shoreline.
Photograph

Company Store

Date: 02 1925
Description: There is smoke damage to the bricks evident above the windows of the company store in this view of the ghost town of Fayette. To the right, with dormers, i...
Photograph

Old Hotel

Date: 02 1925
Description: Workers' houses stand in front of the Fayette Tourists Lodge. After the Jackson Iron Company left in 1891, Fayette became a tourist destination and is now ...
Photograph

View of Fayette

Date: 02 1925
Description: An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree...
Photograph

Abandoned Town

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned town of Fayette. Snail Shell Harbor is in the foreground, with a low warehouse along the boat dock and empty buildings on th...
Photograph

Furnace Complex

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background.
Photograph

Fayette Tourists Lodge

Date: 02 1925
Description: Four men with their collars turned up against the cold stand beside the Fayette Tourists Lodge. The Fayette post office was housed in the building. On the ...
Photograph

Fayette Hotel

Date: 02 1925
Description: A car is parked alongside the hotel in Fayette. Four men pose near the front porch. As advertised by a large sign, the hotel housed the Fayette Post Office...
Photograph

Dolomite Cliffs

Date: 02 1925
Description: Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr...
Photograph

Workers' Houses

Date: 02 1925
Description: Abandoned workers' houses stand along the shore of Lake Michigan. The Fayette Tourists Lodge is on the far left.
Photograph

In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin River — Stand Rock, Showing Top #86

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Description: Three hunters and their dog posing on the top of Stand Rock. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery."
Photograph

In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin River — Stand Rock, Showing Top #86

Date: 06 24 1878
Description: Stereograph of three men at the top of Stand Rock. One man is standing holding his rifle, while the two other people are sitting. Text at right: "Wandering...

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