Photograph
Summer School Camp
| View down worn path towards several tents pitched on platforms along a slope. The caption on the back reads: "Tents for summer school students in the Eagle Heights woods. Used in the late 1950s." |
| Image ID: | 136738 |
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| Creation Date: | after 1955 |
| Creator Name: | Photoart House (Firm) |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Classified file, circa 1850s-1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | CF 9072 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6.75 x 4.75 inches |
| This tent village was known as Camp Gallistella, for A.F. Gallistel. It was operated by the university as inexpensive summer housing for students. For more information, see "Eagle Heights" by Thomas D. Brock, reprinted in Historic Madison: A Journal of the Four Lake Region Volume XII, 1995. (c)Historic Madison, Inc. |
| University of Wisconsin |
| Outdoor photography |
| Bicycles |
| Trails |
| Hills |
| Camp sites, facilities, etc. |
| Camping |
| Tents |
| Student housing |
| Trees |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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