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Falls at Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in the foreground, and a man and woman sit on a log over the stream in the background at the Parfrey's Glen waterfall near Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Below the Falls

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand on a ledge at Skillet Falls.
Photograph

Skillet Falls

Date: 1909
Description: View of Skillet Falls from downstream. The trees are bare, and tree stumps are visible on the hill in the background, known locally as Mount Baldy.
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a woman holding a walking stick and wearing a hat and fur coat with a fur stole sitting on a ledge of ice at Skillet Falls. Bare trees fra...
Photograph

Two Women at Skillet Falls

Date: 1909
Description: Two well-dressed women stand at the foot of Skillet Falls. The trees in the background are bare; the hill behind is covered with tree stumps. The hill is...
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: A well-dressed woman with a walking stick stands on ice at the partially frozen Skillet Falls. Bare trees frame the scene. There are patches of snow and tr...
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Young Woman

Date: 1915
Description: A young woman sits on a log which lies over a stream bed in a wooded area.
Map or Atlas

Devil's Lake State Park : Sauk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: Map showing Devil's Lake State Park limits, railroads, roads, creeks, trails, and park sites. Accompanying text about the location, natural features, attra...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Wisconsin River Near Kilbourn City, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the Dells of the Wisconsin River, from Stand Rock and Witches Gulch at the north to a point approximately one ...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Kilbourn, Wisconsin and Vicinity

Date: 1915
Description: This 1915 map covers the section of the Wisconsin River in southern Adams, southeastern Juneau, northeastern Sauk, and northwestern Columbia counties. A po...
Postcard

Skillet Falls

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard view of Skillet Falls from downstream. Caption reads: "Skillet Falls, Baraboo, Wis."
Photograph

Pewit's Nest

Date: 1950
Description: Two girls and a boy are posing standing at the edge of the pool at Pewit's Nest. The boy has rolled the legs of his overalls above his knees. There are tal...
Photograph

Pewit's Nest

Date: 
Description: Elevated view stereograph of the dam at Pewit's Nest on Skillet Creek. Caption on reverse reads: "Devil's Lake and Wisconsin Scenery."
Photograph

Pewit's Nest

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of a view of Pewit's Nest from above the dam. Caption at foot: "175 — Pewit's Nest above the Falls, Near Devil's Lake, Wis."

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