Historical Object
103 - Various Scenes from Joy Camps
Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying six photographs. The one on the upper left shows three campers sitting in a rowboat along the shoreline sketching (with possibly another camper in the left foreground with her back to the camera); original caption notes that campers were "using flowers growing in the Bog Garden as subjects." Upper middle photograph shows a camper standing on a dock. Upper right photograph shows camp owner and co-director, Barbara Ellen Joy, holding a dog, near a wooded area; original caption notes: "Miss Joy holding the camp pet of 1943, by name of Jason." Lower right photograph shows campers eating outside, next to a building; original caption notes: "Members of the crackers 'n milk contingent busily at work in the middle of a fine afternoon." Lower middle photograph shows a younger, shorter camper standing next to an older, taller camper, each holding some sort of bag with strap; original caption notes: "The tall and the short of it in 1938." The lower left photograph shows two campers seated on the ground holding tennis rackets. One camper is wearing sunglasses (lenses are shaped like flowers). |
Image ID: | 108875 |
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Creation Date: | |
Creator Name: | Joy Camps |
City: | Hazelhurst |
County: | Oneida |
State: | Wisconsin |
Collection Name: | Sue Hackett scrapbooks, photograph album, and papers relating to Joy Camps, Hazelhurst, Wisconsin, 1941-1943, 1949-1951 |
Genre: | Historical Object |
Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
Original Format Number: | M2013-167 |
Original Dimensions: | 11 x 7 inches |
Page 103 of the Joy Camps official photo album, which described for parents the "IDEAL" summer camp experience that Joy Camps offered. The full contents of this official photo album, a selection of pages from the Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album, and a selection of pages from the Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook are all included in the Joy Camps image gallery. |
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Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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