Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: County of Dane
Filter: Subject of camping
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #16 from Blessed Sacrament Church, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 07 21 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three boys receiving craft instruction in how to braid thongs for use in making a pair of "Indian" moccasins from Dick Carman (right). The boys (left to ri... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Nineteen men and women are posing outdoors in front of tents in a forest clearing. At the bottom the caption reads: "Jänta å ja" Camp at Livesey's Spring, ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Campers on Picnic Point. Tents are set up along the shore, under the trees. A few campers are in front of their tents. A canoe is barely visible on the rig... |
| Date: | 1894 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Seven members of the canoe association are posed around an eighth member, who is lying face down on a padded cot, covered with ferns. Ferns have been strat... |
| Date: | 07 05 1928 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Article entitled "Several Indian Families Now Encamped at Frost's Woods, Ancient Camp Site" about Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians camping on the shores of Lak... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two women pose for an outdoor photograph at the Jonas' campsite at Merrill Springs. One woman sits on a stool with her needlework while another kneels behi... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Jonas' campsite at Merrill Springs. There are two tents pitched in a grove of trees. Two women and two men are outside the tents. |
| Date: | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 07 07 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Five girls prepare a meal around a campfire at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA Teen Camp on the shore of Lake Mendota near Fox Bluff. Left to right are: Carol ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students and chaperons during a camping trip at Livesy Springs on the north shore of Lake Mendota. On the left side stands ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four men in front of tent in the woods. There is a man with a hatchet next to a clothesline between two trees. This is a Centennial encampment on the shore... |
| Date: | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Members of the Chicago Traveling Club are encamped on the shores of Lake Mendota and are posed with their tents, guns, cooking equipment, boat, paddles, sh... |
| Date: | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
| Date: | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han... |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pins, "kegels"), a horn (l... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A scene from YMCA's day camp at Camp Wakanda, located on the shore of Lake Mendota. Left to right: John Kaiser, David Williamson, and Mark Foster, standin... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: