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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A family posing in an open carriage pulled by a matched team of horses on the shore of Rock Lake near Lake Mills. A handwritten caption identifies the fami... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page decorated with a hand-painted stem of wild geranium flowers features four photographs of Stuart Fargo, age two years, and his sister Dorothy,... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An album page comprises five photographic prints and a watercolor painting of a shooting star (Dodecatheon) flower. The photograph at lower right was taken... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frank B. Fargo, standing on the shore and posing in front of the small launch "Ruth" on Rock Lake. An unidentified man, possibly Charles Millard, is standi... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a group of people on and next to a dock on a lake. Four people are in a rowboat. A boy is playing with a toy sailboat in the fore... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards a boathouse on the shore, with groups of people sitting and standing on the platform in front. A group of people are in a rowboat ne... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the Knickerbocker Ice Company building. Rock Lake in the foreground. There is a ramp leading from the lake to the ice house. Caption reads: "The Ic... |
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| Description: | View across water towards a single-masted sailboat with two passengers sailing in Rock Lake. Dwellings are along the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Greetin... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of Rock Lake. There is a sign posted on a tree that reads: "Erin Side", and it has also been added to the postcard on the right where it reads: "Erin ... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the Mill Pond connected to Rock Lake. A row of boathouses on the left. A small empty rowboat in the pond. Several lily pads on the... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View across outlet towards the park by Rock Lake. People are picnicking, children are on a swing set, and women are walking along a path. There is a rustic... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of a waterskier and motorboat on Rock Lake. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of a marshy part of Rock Lake. Two small rowboats and a pile of logs are on the shore, and a flock of ducks is in the water. Caption reads: "Hunting G... |
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| Description: | View across dirt road along a lake towards a group of people on the edge of the road looking at the lake. Automobiles are parked on the right along the cur... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, women and children in modest swimming suits enjoy splashing and playing in the water at Sandy Beach, a resort established by Gerhard Strauss in 1921. ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rock Lake, Lake Mills, Wis." A sailboat on the lake at sunset. Rock Lake is a 1365 acre lake with a maximum depth of 60 feet on the W... |
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