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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water toward the Larks Hotel and ferry. Caption reads: "Larks Hotel, Wisconsin Dells." |
| Date: | 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across the Wisconsin River, showing the wreckage left by the disastrous flood of July 24, 1912. A power dam on the Wisconsin River above Waus... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water toward East Hill. Caption reads: "East Hill, from Depot Grounds, Wausau, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across grass towards a wagon bridge on the left crossing the Wisconsin River at Stevens Point. Caption reads: "Wagon Bridge, across Wisconsin River, S... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from below along the left side of the Wisconsin River bridge. Tree-covered hills are on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Wisconsin River Bridge... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from bridge looking towards the paper mill and railroad bridge on the Wisconsin River outside of Rhinelander. Caption reads: "Wisconsin River and Pape... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of toll bridge across the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "A Glimpse of Pr-Du-Sac Toll Bridge." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of bridge over Wisconsin River built in 1921 to take the place of the old wooden bridge when it became condemned. Caption reads: "Prairie Du ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This was the first bridge built across the Wisconsin River, constructed about 1850, although it was not opened to traffic until 1852. It was torn down in 1... |
| Date: | 04 20 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a paddle steamer on the Wisconsin River near Boscobel. Written on the hull of the boat is the text: "Steamer-Grand-Stranded-Near-B... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view up the Wisconsin River near the foot of Grandfather Falls, which falls 90 feet in 1 1/2 miles. Caption reads: "Near the foot of ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text handwritten on bridge: "Toll Bridge, Sauk City." A couple are standing in a canoe on the Wisconsin River, in front of the Toll Bridge. Old supports ca... |
| Date: | 05 10 1907 |
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| Description: | Written faintly along bottom: "Sauk Toll Bridge". The view is along the side of the bridge, with buildings and trees on both sides in the foreground. A man... |
| Date: | 12 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Approach to Wisconsin River Bridge - Sauk City, Wis." The view is straight across to the opposite side. Trees and hills are on the fa... |
| Date: | 08 25 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Down River from Round Bluff, Prairie Du Sac, Wis." A view of the Wisconsin River with buildings and a road along the left shoreline. ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Wisconsin River Bridge, Spring Green, Wis." A truss bridge with eight spans over the Wisconsin River on State Highway 14. The bridge ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Tower Hill, Spring Green, Wis." View across water towards a rocky formation along the Wisconsin River in Tower Hill State Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.' Electric Power Plant, Kilbourn, Wis." Completed in 1909, the power plant is still in ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Power House, Kilbourn, Wis." A brick building with arched windows. Completed in 1909, the power plant is still in use today. Kilbou... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Tourists on the "Commander", a Wisconsin Dells tour boat on the Wisconsin River. The shores are lined with rock formations and trees. |
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