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Wildwood Dance Pavilion, c.1912.
The Pippin roller coaster at Wildwood, 1927. Photograph by Norton and Peel.
Photograph of Minnesota-based publishing magnate Wilford Fawcett, 1925.
Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett with a trapshooting shotgun. Fawcett captained the U.S. trapshooting team at the 1924 Olympics
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett (far right) congratulating actors Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan on their marriage, c. 1937.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett and his wife, Antoinette Fischer Fawcett, at Breezy Point Resort in Crow Wing, 1926.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett with his third wife (and former secretary) Frances Robinson.
Photograph of Wilford "Captain Billy" Fawcett playing golf with silent film star Harold Lloyd c. 1935. Fawcett and Lloyd's father, James Darsie Lloyd, were friends.
Wilhelm Pfaender, ca. 1870.
Wilhelm Pfaender, ca. 1880.