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Palisades-Kepler State Park

Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of Palisades-Kepler State Park

Lower Palisades

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of Palisades-Kepler State Park
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Book View Tavern

photo of Book View Tavern

Palisades-Kepler State Park

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Panorama of Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of Panorama of Palisades-Kepler State Park

East side lower Palisades

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Picnic Along the River in Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of Picnic Along the River in Palisades-Kepler State Park

Date @1915

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park

Bluffs in Palisades-Kelper State Park

photo of Palisades cave Date @1910

Palisades cave Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Pastimes

Palisades House

photo of Palisades House
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cedar River, Glass Negative, Home Life, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Swimming Women

photo of Swimming Women

2 unidentified women in swimming suits at the Palisades (bad negative) Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Pastimes, Who am I?, Women

Family Gathering at Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of Family Gathering at Palisades-Kepler State Park

A family gathering at the home of Charles Kepler in Palisades-Kepler State Park.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Children, Family, Fashion, Glass Negative, Men, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Pastimes, When is this?, Who am I?, Women

Rock Crusher

photo of Rock Crusher

Crushed rock used to stabilize the bed under the railroad tracks. Note the missing windows … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park

Unidentified Women

photo of Unidentified Women

Four unidentified women. Relatives? Friends? Mother and daughter? Summer walk in the palisades?

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Pastimes, Who am I?, Women

Railroad Quarry

photo of Railroad Quarry

Perhaps in Upper Palisades railroad quarry used by Chicago Northwestern Railroad (additional picture). Date @1915

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, The New Age
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