Found: Cherry Orchard, Door County, WI

Found: Cherry Orchard in Full Bloom, Door County, Wisconsin.
E. A. Bishop, Publisher, Racine, Wis. circa 1910

The first cherry orchards in Door County were planted in 1896. The market for the fruit grew and 10,000 acres of orchards planted. Finding labor to help with the harvest remained an issue until the mechanical cherry shaker was developed. At first cherries were hand harvested and workers paid by the bucked. The new machine harvested 60 to 100 trees per hour and eliminated the need to recruit hundreds of workers each season. Cherries are turned into juice, jam, infamous Wisconsin red tart cherry, and the maraschino cherry that work so great in old-fashioneds and Manhattans.

Found: At the Turn of the Road, Door County, WI

Found: "AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD" POTOWATOMI STATE PARK, DOOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
C.T. Art-Colortone, E. A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconsin. Circa 1930s.
Handwritten in fountain pen on back: "Dear El, Am having a nice time up here. 
Hope you enjoyed your vacation. I am writing in the car in town so excuse the scribbling. Love, Edna."
Postmarked Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, August 26, 1936, 3 PM.

Come autumn, the I-43 corridor heading north can be bumper to bumper with cars and SUVs especially when "fall colors" are peaking in Door County and/or when there's a Packers game at Lambeau. Taking a drive "up north" provides an escape and in fact a tourism slogan once read "Escape to Wisconsin" which locals often modified to read "Escape Wisconsin". Postcards such as this promoted the idea of Sunday drives to view the landscape as seen through the automobile wind shield.

Found: Moonlight at Stand Rock, Wis Dells, WI

Found: 3726. Moonlight at Stand Rock, Dells of the Wisconsin River.  Published by E.A. Bishop, Racine circa 1930

Found: Wisconsin Harvest

Found: A Wisconsin Harvest Field at Sunset. (Scenes along the country roads.)
Published by E.A. Bishop, Racine, Wis. circa 1910s

Found: Human Activity on the Lake Front

Found: "Lake Front, Pier and Breakwater, Sheboygan, Wisconsin" by C.E. Wheelock &Co., Peoria & Leipzig, circa 1908

Found: "Bathing Scene, North Beach, Racine, Wisconsin" by E.A. Bishop, Racine, circa 1910

Found: "Lake Winnebago, North Park, Oshkosh, Wisconsin" by E.C. Kropp Co. Publishing, Milwaukee, circa 1910

Found: "Bathing Beach at Night,Lake Geneva, Wisconsin" by E.A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconsin circa 1930

Found: "Condensing Factory, New London, Wisconsin" by John T. Faber, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, circa 1907

Found: "Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, (Lake Pepin) "The romantic interest is the spot from which the beautiful indian maiden, Winona, daughter of the mighty Red Wing, Chief of the Dakota's took her famous "Lover's Leap" along the burlington's Missisippi River Sceneic Line between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis" by Burlington Route, circa 1928