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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the main pier and harbor lighthouse from the Lake Michigan shoreline. Caption reads: "Bay and Pier, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View from the shore of Kenosha's North Pier and lighthouse. Waves are breaking on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Coast Guard Station and Light House at Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, Door County, Wisconsin." The lighthouse was completed in 1898 but s... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard view of the Eagle Lighthouse in Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Cana Island Lighthouse, built in 1869, located between Moonlight Bay and North Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Illustration of view across water towards a lighthouse and surrounding buildings. Caption reads: "U.S. Light House, Kenosha, Wis." |
| Community: | La Pointe |
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| County: | Ashland |
| Historic Name: | Michigan Island Light Skeleton Light Tower |
| Reference Number: | 243090 |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Second Long Tail Point lighthouse, built in 1859. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Long Tail lighthouse. Built in 1847-1848 and abandoned in 1859 when a new frame lighthouse was built nearby. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the "Pottawatomie" lighthouse in snowy expanse of land, with the lake in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Lighthouse built by State Senator William Bray of Oshkosh, on a point where the Fox River empties into Lake Winnebago. |
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| Description: | Postcard view along icy shoreline of the pier and lighthouse on Lake Michigan at Port Washington in winter. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a lighthouse, with a building and a smokestack behind it. Caption reads: "Chequamegon Point Light House, Bayfield, Wis." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Old Stone Tower and House, Long Tail Point, Green Bay, Wis." Water and a marshy area are in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View of ice coated pier and lighthouse along the shore of Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Winter Scene at Port Washington, Wis." |
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| Description: | Winter postcard view of the pier and lighthouse at Port Washington seen from the icy shore of Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Light House." |
| Speakers Bureau |
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| Ken and Barb Wardius are WHS Press authors and members of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Date: | 12 10 1957 |
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| Description: | View of harbor with pilings in the right foreground. There is a lighthouse on breakwaters in the distance. |
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| Description: | U.S. Lighthouse with people standing in the yard next to it. Caption reads: "U. S. Lighthouse, Fish Creek Wis." |
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