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| Description: | View from shoreline towards an excursion boat at the end of a pier filled with tourists. A boy is fishing on the pier. Caption reads: "A Trip Around the La... |
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| Description: | View along shore path at Lake Geneva. An electric railroad stop is behind the trees. Rowboats, canoes and an excursion boat are lined up along the beach an... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view down pier towards a lakeside hotel. Tourists are standing on the pier, and are also on the lawn. A sign at the shoreline framing... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view from shoreline towards tourists embarking on an excursion boat; some of the people are on the boat, and others are standing on t... |
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| Description: | View of a double-deck excursion boat filled with a crowd of tourists. A few men are standing on the sidewalk to the side. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Front of folded postcard with a cherub or cupid with wings holding a sign that reads: "Fond Du Lac, Wis." inside a red heart with the words: "The Heart of"... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Inside of folded postcard-size card, with an illustration of two cherubs/angels on each side of a heart shape. Inside the heart is a glued and multi-folded... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Front of picture envelope mailer. Inside are nine, double-sided postcards attached to the envelope. |
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| Description: | View along road and shoreline, towards a boathouse on the lake among trees with fall colored foliage. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | "Giant post card" advertising Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Thrill Show on Lake Delton in the Wisconsin Dells, and Dancing Waters, direct from Radio City Musi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin". Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on the reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete withou... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on back reads: "Log Chapel dedicated to St. Jude, Apostle, at the terminus of a bridge from which a wayside shrine and World War-I Memorial is viewed.... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Small Church, 'Wisconsin in Miniature,' Souvenir and Refreshment Stand, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A garden with flowers, rocks, shrubs, pa... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Vacationland Farm, Hwy. 57, S. Sister Bay, Wis. 54234. Farm Petting Zoo * Riding Stables * Pony Ring Game Room * Gift Shop. Excelle... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Rock's Round Barn on Highway U.S. 14 near Spring Green, Wisconsin, is a very unique restaurant featuring a new and novel 'salad bar... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on the reverse reads: "The House on the Rock, at Spring Green, Wisconsin, on Highway 23, North of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Access to this rock is throug... |
| Date: | 07 25 1995 |
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| Description: | Text on the reverse reads: "The House on the Rock. Spring Green, Wisconsin 53588. The House on the Rock comes alive with spectacular autumn colors. This ar... |
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