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Tourist camp, Schultz's Place, Highway 12, Wilson, Wisconsin

• [ca. 1930] (creation)

1 photograph : print ; 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Real-photo postcard with image of the tourist camp and roadside art display at Schultz's in Wilson, Pierce County, Wisconsin. Signs that can be read include: "Schultz's Place," "tourist camp, cabins," "home comfort," "bus depot," an iconic "Schlitz" beer sign, "lunches," "Gents" on the right side of the building, and very faint in the picture is "Ladies" on the left side. There are two gas pumps, the right one has a Cities Service (green and white) trefoil or clover logo on the pump. The one on the left has a Cities Service's Koolmotor gasoline glass globe made in the trefoil or clover shape with "Koolmotor" in the middle, "High Test" above it, and "Anti Knock" below it. Both pumps are the visible cylinder type used from about the mid 1920s to the mid 1930s. Image is printed on EKC paper (this stamp box design used 1930-1950). Unused.

This item is made available by the University Archives & Area Research Center, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, for personal, educational, and research purposes in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of Copyright Act of 1976. Other uses may require permission from the copyright owner.

Cataloged by kdo, 03/15/2019

Donated March 18, 2019, by Kathryn Otto, St. Paul MN.

Postcard Shoebox 3

[United States] : [Publisher not identified], [ca. 1930]

• Cities Service Oil Company -- 1930-1940 Cottages -- Wisconsin -- Wilson -- 1930-1940 Gasoline pumps -- Wisconsin -- Pierce County -- 1930-1940 Roadside art -- Wisconsin -- Pierce County -- 1930-1940 Schultz's Place (Wilson, Wis.) -- 1930-1940 Tourist camps, hostels, etc. -- Wisconsin -- Wilson -- 1930-1940 Wilson (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- 1930-1940

• Wilson (Wis.) Pierce (Wis.)