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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Front of dinner menu for the "North American" for the season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Illinois... |
| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
| Date: | 06 23 1939 |
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| Description: | Display of travel materials for Wisconsin Division of AAA American Automobile Association Travel Bureau. |
| Date: | 03 28 1939 |
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| Description: | American Automobile Association display window showing Wisconsin travel brochures and pictures of tourist destinations around the state. |
| Date: | 06 11 1931 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the Log Cabin tourist camp at 6611 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in front of the Lake Delton airport hangar with a windsock on the roof. Automobiles are parked inside the hangar. On the right is a fu... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Crescent Beach campsite with cabins and miniature golf course by Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr... |
| Date: | 05 21 1935 |
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| Description: | International Model C-1 truck parked in front of Edmonton capitol building in Alberta, Canada. The truck was used to promote tourism in Alberta and is pain... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | At many places in Wisconsin, the Interstate Highway is divided by a wide median strip that provides a scenic view for the motorist. This photograph shows ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Bartlett's Cabin Camp on Highways 10 &12 near Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Ford automobile parked at the "The Frog," a filling station between Cambridge and Lake Ripley that also offered motorists ice cream, soda pop, and candy.... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could rep... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Automobiles parked outside the Poplar Tourist Court. |
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