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Split Rock Lighthouse
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Oversized "Colortone" postcard view across water towards the Split Rock Lighthouse from the waterline, looking up the bluffs, with other buildings along the left. Postcard caption reads: "X-501 — Split Rock Lighthouse on North Shore of Lake Superior. The rugged beauty of Lake Superior's north shore — stretching 150 miles from Duluth to the Canadian border — is world famous. This scenic highway unfolds a thrilling ever-changing panorama of primitive forests, rushing streams, hills and shore line. Picturesque Split Rock Lighthouse, aids Great Lakes navigators approaching the Duluth Harbor and warns them of the dangers of this rocky promontory."
Curt Teich & Co.
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Split Rock Lighthouse
View along rocky shoreline toward the lighthouse. Caption reads: "Split Rock Lighthouse on north shore of Lake Superior."
Wind Point Lighthouse
"Colortone" postcard view of the Wind Point Lighthouse, along with two other buildings. A fence surrounds the buildings, and in the distance a steamship is on Lake Michigan. Caption reads: "Wind Po...
Greetings from Superior
August 16, 1946
Text on front reads: "Greetings from Superior, Wis." Large Letter style postcard with a scene in the background of a fisherman on a Northern Wisconsin lake. Inside the letters that spell "Superior"...
Rugged Shore of Stockton Island
circa 1910-1919
Photographic postcard of the rock formations on the shore of Stockton Island, one of the twenty-one islands comprising the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior.
Yacht Basin on Lake Michigan
1958
Text on reverse reads: "Yacht Basin on Lake Michigan. Sheboygan, Wisconsin." View from shore towards a long "L" shaped concrete dock with many boats moored on the shore side. A maintenance boat wit...
The Cowboy
1946
Back of a cowboy postcard sent by Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family. A Curt Teich Art Colortone published by Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver Colorado,
