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Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ave., West from Ninth Street
Mailed in 1928 with a clear postmark (promoting airmail) and stamp, and postmark ink on the front also. Grade: 3

Code: 10150289
Price: $4.00
Milwaukee, View from Michigan St. Bridge
Whether “from” the bridge, or *of* the bridge, we’re not certain; but we know this is an old, mailed card whose stamp is there but whose postmark is mostly missing. Grade: 1

Code: 10150290
Price: $3.00
Milwaukee, City Hall
Classic postcard view of Milwaukee’s seat of power, on this old and unused E.C. Kropp card 14485. Grade: 1

Code: 10150291
Price: $4.00
Milwaukee, Tripoli Temple
A Shrine Mosque “Inspired by” the Taj Mahal, and ornately described in the caption on the back of the unmailed L.L. Cook card 88953 (169Z) from 1956. Grade: 1

Code: 10150292
Price: $2.00
Mineral Point, Welsh House
Unused card with mild abrasions in one front corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10150293
Price: $1.00
Platteville, The Mining Museum
Unused Dexter Press card 41506-D. This seems to be part of a museum complex now. Grade: 1

Code: 10150294
Price: $2.00
Platteville, Dodge House Motor Inn
All we know from our Google search is that the Inn is no longer there, in that form at least. But the card is here, unused, and Grade: 1

Code: 10150295
Price: $3.00
Portage, Canal Entrance to Wisconsin River
Old, unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 10150296
Price: $3.00
Portage, Mouth of the Baraboo
Very old postcard, unused, and definitely scenic. Grade: 1

Code: 10150297
Price: $3.00
Portage, Wisconsin River
How many rivers does Portage have? Unused, old E.C. Kropp postcard 2927. Grade: 1

Code: 10150298
Price: $4.00
Portage, Dewitt Street, Looking North
Black & white except for the caption, an unused E.C. Kropp postcard 4668 showing Winter in Wisconsin. Grade: 1

Code: 10150299
Price: $4.00
Racine, Belmont Av.
The caption on this real-photo postcard (“Belmont Av., E. of Racine”) is mildly confusing, but we checked … and if you come from there, you already know there really is a Belmont Avenue in Racine and it stretches north to south for quite a distance. This card is unused other than someone long ago having written “Eddie’s birthplace” in pencil across the reverse. Now if we could only Google Eddie … Grade: 2

Code: 10150300
Price: $5.00
Rhinelander, City Hall
Unused card. City Hall now doesn’t look all that different from City Hall then, but Google can be tricky. Grade: 1

Code: 10150301
Price: $3.00
Rhinelander, Oneida County Court House
The courthouse was built in 1908 to a replace a timber frame courthouse that had been on the same site from 1887-1908. The 1908 courthouse was designed by German-born architect Christ H. Tegen of Manitowoc; the rear of the building has been expanded several times to provide additional space for county government. This is an unused, early-1900s card. Grade: 1

Code: 10150302
Price: $4.00
Rib Lake, Main Street
Looking like so many other small towns, Rib Lake’s Main Street appears on this real-photo card mailed in 1949 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10150303
Price: $4.00
Sinsinawa, St. Clara College, Dominican Motherhouse
Google uncovers several iterations and name changes for this massive complex, and we’re not going to try to sort it all out. But the card is easy to describe: from Fagan (17657), unused, Grade: 1

Code: 10150304
Price: $2.00
Spring Green, Rest Haven Motel
Guess what? It’s still there! Just not as “Rest Haven”, which had opened in 1952 (or 1948?) with a name better associated with nursing homes or memorial parks, but as The Usonian Inn LLC, whose own website describes it as “Intentionally designed for mature audience! This is your place to have moments of relaxation, enjoy a glass of our special wine inventory on the patio and later at night you can do star gazing in the backyard! Our lodging property it’s about comfort and history. The Usonian Inn it’s a testimony of time.” Compelling! Compelling but for recent unpleasant reviews. Anyway … unused postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 10150305
Price: $2.00
Stanley, Birds Eye View
Old B&W real-photo postcard, unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10150306
Price: $4.00
Stone Lake, Front Street
Very old, fading, unused real-photo card. Has Front Street become Frost Avenue? Just curious. Grade: 1

Code: 10150307
Price: $4.00
Tomahawk, Wisconsin Ave. Looking East
Classic old real-photo postcard of a classic small American town. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10150308
Price: $4.00
Twin Lake (sic), Waldeck
Or, more probably, Twin LakeS, on a card mailed in 1910 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10150309
Price: $4.00
Twin Lakes, Lake Marie, from “Waldeck”
This card was mailed in 1911 … the stamp and full postmark are there, and so is the message, but that has faded quite a bit. Grade: 2

Code: 10150310
Price: $3.00
Twin Lake (sic), Waldeck Avenue, Cottages
An ancient Twin Lakes real-photo postcard, stamped for mailing but never written or sent. Only because the stamp is there, Grade: 2

Code: 10150311
Price: $4.00
Mauston, State Street Looking East
Unused, undivided-back (so, pre-1908) real-photo postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 10150312
Price: $4.00
Watertown, Octagon House
From Wikipedia, condensed: “The Octagon House, also known as the Octagon House Museum or the John Richards Octagon House, was built in 1854 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is one of many octagon houses built in the United States in the mid-19th century.” The unused E.C. Kropp card 4976N has an unusually detailed caption, right down to how much bread the oven could handle. Impressive. Grade: 1

Code: 10150313
Price: $3.00
Friendship, Power House and Mound
As a start, why does Wisconsin have two towns in two different counties, both named “Friendship”? And if this is an old power plant near Wausau, great, Google reveals it but that’s as far as we got. Unused real-photo card, from Northern Photo Company in Wausau. Grade: 1

Code: 10150314
Price: $4.00
Friendship, Birds Eye View
We’re thinking this is the Friendship that’s closest to Wausau. Don’t hold us to that. Unused old real-photo card. Grade: 1

Code: 10150315
Price: $4.00
Wausau, Wausau Memorial Hospital
In 1970, two Wausau hospitals (St. Mary’s and Memorial — this one) agreed to merge. Until the new Wausau Hospital Center was built in 1979, the two hospitals operated as Wausau Hospital North (St. Mary’s) and Wausau Hospital South (Memorial). Decades later, they adopted the name “Aspirus”. Here’s an older, unused card from before all that happened. Grade: 1

Code: 10150316
Price: $3.00
Wausau, Scott Street
We waited for many years to see the phrase “Oh, you kid!” on any card, and finally here it is … from 1913 on this card with stamp and classically clear postmark. Abrasions around the edges. Grade: 2

Code: 10150317
Price: $5.00
West Bend, City Park Swimming Pool
We’re not certain which West Bend parks may have which pools, but we suspect this one has been upgraded. Real-photo card mailed in 1936 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10150318
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Whitewater
This is a very nice card in some ways and almost nice in others. It’s like an operational definition of “irony”: the stamp is there, and so is the postmark — but without a date (easily the early 1900s). There’s a long message but it makes no sense to us. Something like that. Grade: 1

Code: 10150319
Price: $4.00
Wilton, Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Unused Mary Jayne card MJ121. It’s artwork, not a photo. Grade: 1

Code: 10150320
Price: $1.00
Winegar, Bridge at Bay View Lodge
We detect a hint of superiority in the message on this real-photo card, mailed in 1931 with clear postmark and stamp. But that’s not the best part: Winegar itself doesn’t exist in that form any more, as Wikipedia reveals: “In 1905, J.J. Foster erected a lumber mill at the headwaters of the Presque Isle River. Foster named the community Fosterville. William S. Winegar bought the mill in 1910 and the town was renamed in his honor. The mill closed in 1933 and Walleye Rearing Ponds were established by the State of Wisconsin. In 1959, the town changed its name again, now to Presque Isle, matching the name of the surrounding township.” From the postcard’s perspective, we like it when these things happen. But guess what? It seems like Bay View Lodge is still there. Grade: 1

Code: 10150321
Price: $5.00
Lake Delton, Ishnala Supper Club
Another postcard, unused, that coyly doesn’t want you to know exactly where the property is, just that it’s near Wisconsin Dells (isn’t everything in Wisconsin?) and on Mirror Lake. The caption highlights the club’s location on a White Sand Beach but does not report that online reviews for the place right now are excellent. We’d go, if we could. Grade: 1

Code: 10150322
Price: $2.00
Wisconsin Dells, Main Street
Of the many, *many* views of Ducks on the Dells, this unused real-photo postcard stands out as a must-have for anyone specialising in cards of this region. So few people … Grade: 1

Code: 10150323
Price: $11.00
Wisconsin Dells, “Lost Canyon”
Not so “lost” if the horses can find it … Unused card #D-1036. Grade: 1

Code: 10150324
Price: $3.00
Wisconsin Dells, “Lost Canyon”
An unused companion to the previous entry, this is reference #D-1039. Grade: 1

Code: 10150325
Price: $3.00
Wisconsin Dells, Fern Dell Country School
In use from 1883 until 1955, so this unused card must have been published shortly after that. Grade: 1

Code: 10150326
Price: $1.00
Wisconsin Dells, H.H. Bennett Studio
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 9B-H1842 of the “oldest in the United States,” opened in 1865. Whatever other functions it still has, it’s also a museum. Grade: 1

Code: 10150327
Price: $2.00
Wisconsin Dells, Larks Hotel
The Wisconsin Historical Society dates this postcard at about 1910 and that would seem right except that the one we have was mailed in 1909, with stamp and postmark and long, hard-to-understand message. Other sources go back even a few years earlier, and as it is an undivided back (divided by the writer with a line!), we think the correct date of publication could be 1906 or 1907. Anyway, the hotel is long gone. Grade: 1

Code: 10150328
Price: $5.00

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