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| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | The Alexander Mitchell excursion boat with passengers. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, is captured in mid-air as he jumps to Stand Rock. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A German shepherd jumps across Stand Rock as a man and child in traditional Indian apparel look on. The man is pointing to the dog. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Fat Man's Misery, the narrow defile in Cold Water Canyon. |
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| Description: | Sexton's Eddy, up the river and opposite. There is a steamboat in the distance. |
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| Description: | View from Sexton's Landing of the river and a steamboat. (Steamboat probably Alexander Mitchell). |
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| Description: | Clam Banks; upstream from Arm Chair with steamboat passing, (probably the "New Dell Queen"). |
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| Description: | Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond. |
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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: | Group of Ho-Chunk at Stand Rock Amphitheater. Several men sit in a ring as other Ho-Chunk look on. Tepee in the background. This is where the Stand Rock In... |
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| Description: | A woman holding a baby sits near a little girl on rocks looking down on the "Dell Queen" steamboat entering the Narrows at Devil's Elbow. |
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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 looking down at the "Dell Queen" along the near shoreline at a point across from Ravine Bridge. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of tourists posing standing in Cold Water Canyon. There is a man in the background on the left with a camera. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Kilbourn railroad park. There is a group of tourists walking down to Dells Landing. |
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| Description: | Unidentified group of tourists going to Dells Landing. There are horse-drawn vehicles beyond. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of passengers posed on steamboat Alexander Mitchell with a bridge and opposite shoreline in the background. One man leans on a h... |
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