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Maple Bluff Camp

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a group of people posing by the lakeshore of Maple Bluff with tents in the background. One of the woman is holding an archery bow, two women...
Photograph

Silent Glow Oil Burner Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Sales personnel pose in the Silent Glow oil burner booth with an oil burning kitchen stove, furnaces, and portable styles of oil burners at the Dane Count...
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Campers at McBride's Point

Date: 1879
Description: View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison.
Photograph

Group of Campers at McBride's Point

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...
Photograph

Campers at McBride's Point

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...
Painting

Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i...
Photograph

Fourth of July Refreshment Tent

Date: 06 02 1944
Description: Fourth of July refreshment tent in Westmorland neighborhood, with Mrs. Vincent Domini, William T. Hammill, Mrs. Hammill, and Mrs. Elmer Nielson.
Photograph

County Fair Demonstration

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Description: The Wisconsin Agricultural Extension labeled this photograph: "Typical scene at a Co Fair." It shows a home economics demonstration to a largely female au...
Photograph

Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Three girl scouts and the camp director chatting while sitting on a cot in a tent at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured left to right: Mar...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 18 1946
Description: A woman and child cooking on a small gas stove in a tent at the University of Wisconsin tent colony, also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of L...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 18 1946
Description: Seven children playing in the sandbox with one adult at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony, also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake ...
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch Dedication

Date: 06 19 1912
Description: Day of the dedication of the Memorial Arch for Camp Randall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. University Heights, with the Buell and Gilmore h...
Photograph

Girl Scouts at Camp Greenwood on Picnic Point

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Girl Scouts gather outdoors at Camp Greenwood, a day camp at Picnic Point for Intermediate Girl Scouts between the ages of 10 and 14. The Girl Scouts pictu...
Photograph

Madison Home Show

Date: 09 15 1950
Description: Madison's first home show in thirteen years was officially opened by Acting Manager George Forster when he cut the ribbon at the entrance to the exhibit ar...
Photograph

Campsite at Merrill Springs

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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.
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Badminton Game at Campsite

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Description: Four individuals, presumably the Jonas family, play badminton at their campsite. A horse grazes behind the individuals playing badminton.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street.
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Monona Lake Assembly

Date: 1886
Description: Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui...
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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A Summer Sitting Room

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: An informal group is seated under an awning in the garden of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Picture...

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