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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, P... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the entrance to Devil's Lake State Park. There is an information center offering gas, food, and Blatz beer. Two storekeepers and a boy sit on the p... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of two-seat lawn swings amid trees on a lawn. Cabins are along a hill in the background. There is an information center on the far left. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Jack Paar, comedian and host of NBC's "Tonight Show," and his wife during a visit to Japan. During their visit Paar was hosted by journalist Cecil Brown, h... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Visitors to the historic Charles A. Grignon House (built 1837-1839), probably during the 1940s. The visitors are seated on a corner of the front porch unde... |
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| Description: | View from stairway looking up at House on the Rock on built on Deer Shelter Rock. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over parking lot of House on the Rock. The property is heavily forested with trees, and bushes surround the parking area. There is a long, lo... |
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| Description: | Interior of room at House on the Rock looking at the view out large canted windows. In the foreground is a staircase with a railing. |
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| Description: | Interior of room at House on the Rock. A young man is sitting on a bench near the window. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Schoenbrun (far left) views an anti-American wall mural in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa. A man is standing next to her. Schoenbrun was tr... |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Mercedes of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau and publisher of at least 23 editions of ... |
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| Description: | View down a commercial main street lined with trees and parked cars. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A cylinder-shaped cement building with an open door in a rural area. In front of the building is a picnic table, and on the right an automobile is parked n... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of the Old Capitol at Williamsburg during the Jamestown Exposition. Signs advertise, "Colonial Virginia, Accurately Reproduced, Smith's Adventures Wi... |
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| Description: | Exterior of a gas station/restaurant and the entrance to the Triangle Tourist Park. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of gas station/restaurant outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers Red Crown brand gasoline, Coney Island Red Hots, hot co... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of gas station and "dine and dance" restaurant on Highway US-18/US-12, outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers ... |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Mirror Lake from a deck truss bridge. On both sides of the lake are boathouses and tour boats. Steep cliffs lined with trees and plants... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man and woman pose at the wooden walkway among the rock formations of Congress Hall, on the Dell View Resort property. |
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