Audio-visual promotion files, 1964-2000.

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Audio-visual promotion files, 1964-2000.

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Photographs, mainly black and white prints, used for general promotion of Wisconsin tourism by the Division. Although undated, the majority of prints date from the 1980s. Included are views of tourist destinations, museums and historic sites, scenic locations, and activities such as fishing, boating, skiing, and snowmobiling. There are also views of the EAA Fly-in, many hotels, motels, and bed and breakfast inns, festivals and fairs, and ferry boats. One folder documents various film crews searching for or filming at Wisconsin locations. Individuals in these photographs include Pat Boone, Glenn Close, Gilbert Hemsley, and Bob Uecker. Departmental secretary Dick Matty appears in some of these snapshots. Actor Paul Newman appears in one photograph taken at Road America.

5,642 negatives,7,417 transparencies,27 films, and11 videorecordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925814

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Division of Tourism

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Chapter 154, Laws of 1969, transferred the Bureau of Commercial Recreation in 1970 from the Department of Local Affairs and Development (WIHV86-A1748) to the Department of Natural Resources (WIHV85-A695) where it was successively called the Division of Tourism and Commercial Recreation, the Division of Tourism and Information, and the Division of Tourism. Chapter 39, Laws of 1975, transferred the Division of Tourism from the Department of Natural Resources to the Departm...