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Y.M.C.A. Camp

Date: 1914
Description: The Young Men's Christian Association Camp. A man is sitting on the lawn near a small bridge on the left. In the background along the right are buildings. ...
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

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Description: Colorized postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. Features a scene of men, women and children among picnic tables, automobiles. Tents are pi...
Postcard

Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowish

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Description: Colorized postcard of Boulder Lake. Pine trees are in the foreground and islands are below in the background. Caption reads: "Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowi...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Postcard

Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
Map or Atlas

Emergency Conservation Camps as of January

Date: 1936
Description: This 1936 Wisconsin Conservation Dept. map shows the locations of state forestry Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps, closed state forestry CCC camps, ...
Map or Atlas

Forest and Park Activity Map as of December 15, 1937 : [Wisconsin]

Date: 1937
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, national forests, county forests, state nurseries, Indian reservations, st...
Map or Atlas

Northern Forest State Park : Vilas County - Wisconsin

Date: 1926
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from the 1920s shows roads, railroads, campsites, lookout towers, and privately owned lands in Northern Forest S...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...
Map or Atlas

Bayfield County : Top o' Wisconsin

Date: 1967
Description: This tourist brochure for Bayfield County, Wisconsin, from 1967 includes a map of the county showing towns, cities and villages, highways and roads, railro...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Postcards

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying four Joy Camps postcards of different colors with different scenes depicted on each. Each postcard reads, "...
Postcard

U. Smile Camp

Date: 1920
Description: View from field of flowers towards U. Smile Camp, with four log cabins in a row on the left, another in the background, and another building next to it wit...
Postcard

Trees for Tomorrow Environmental Center

Date: 1960
Description: Aerial view of the Trees for Tomorrow Environmental Center, with buildings, grounds, roads, and the Eagle River. Founded in 1944.
Map or Atlas

Land of Lakes, Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: This map shows roads, foot and canoe trails, railroads, resorts, lookout towers, camps, national and state forests, Indian reservation, and types of fish i...
Map or Atlas

Oneida County- Where Nature Lingered Longer

Date: 1987
Description: This map shows federal highways, state or county highways, rivers, lakes, town roads, township boundaries, county boundaries, national or state forest, loo...
Postcard

Chautauqua Grounds, Chetek

Date: 1908
Description: Hand-colored scene of a campsite in the woods with several tents. Men are sitting in chairs in the tent on the left. Caption reads: "Chautauqua Grounds, Ch...
Postcard

Cabin; Whispering Pines Methodist Camp

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Description: Color postcard view of a cabin called "Cedar" at the Whispering Pines Methodist Camp on Spirit Lake.
Postcard

Hill Top Cabins — College Camp

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Description: View of a row of small cabins along the top of a small slope. Caption reads: "Hill Top Cabins — College Camp, Wisconsin — On Lake Geneva, Wis."
Postcard

Administration Building, Y.M.C.A. Camp

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Description: View across driveway towards a building with a front porch on a hill, with trees and flowering bushes flanking the stairs leading up to the entrance. Capti...

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