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State Archery Champions

Date: 08 04 1957
Description: Winners in State Archery competition. Front row left to right: Mike Manthey (Watertown), Sharann Magel (Milwaukee), Butch Szehner (Milwaukee), Jerry MacKo...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Archery Features

Date: 07 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images from an archery tournament at a summer camp for boys at Camp America Williams: a group of fin...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Pat McCann

Date: 07 1942
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Pat McCann, the last shooter in an archery tournament held at a boys summer camp, drawing the bow a...
Photograph

"Rising Sun"

Date: 
Description: Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man wearing strings of beads, a silver bracelet and a headdress. He is holding a bow and arrows.
Photograph

039 - Campers Practicing Archery

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Description: Row of six posed campers in archery stance with arrows loaded in their bows pointed towards the sky. Original caption notes: "Our three most popular Land S...
Photograph

040 - Camper Aiming Bow and Arrow

Date: 
Description: Profile view of archer kneeling in the grass on one knee, with bow and arrow ready and pointing towards the sky. Original caption notes: "Our three most po...
Historical Object

111 - Camp Pioneers of Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. Young campers are participating in a number of activities, including tennis, seesawing, boatin...
Historical Object

112 - Joy Camps Younger Camp Pioneers

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. Young campers are captured in various activities, all near wooded areas. One camper in one pho...
Photograph

Standing Near a Pond

Date: 1939
Description: Shirley and Robert Krueger standing barefoot at the edge of a pond. Their shoes and socks are lying on rocks at the waters edge. Shirley is holding a bow w...
Photograph

Indian Boys Practice Archery

Date: 1956
Description: Six Native American boys and teenagers take part in an archery competition. They are holding their bows and carrying arrows in a bag on their backs. Riley ...
Photograph

Sam Blowsnake

Date: 1956
Description: Sam Blowsnake prepares to shoot an arrow with his bow as a crowd of people watches behind him.
Photograph

Sam Carley Blowsnake and Jacob Lone Tree

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Description: Sam Carley Blowsnake and Jacob Lone Tree stand side by side, drawing back arrows in their bows. People are standing in the background.
Map or Atlas

Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, ou se Remarquent les Etats Unis

Date: 1790
Description: An updated and corrected version of Robert de Vaugondy's 1750 map "Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Na...
Photograph

Two Young Archers

Date: 
Description: Two boys posing with bows and arrows.
Postcard

Menges Resort

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of trees shading the lawn at Menges Resort on Lake Puckaway. There is a two-story wood frame building with a screened porch acro...
Photograph

Russ Shepherd at McMiller Shooting Center

Date: 09 12 1981
Description: A man is kneeling and pulling an arrow out of a target, which has an illustration of a buck. The man is also holding a compound bow. Caption reads: "Russ S...
Photograph

YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: Archers John Vick, Ricky Wixson and Douglas Merdler preparing to send their arrows.
Photograph

Gustof Ostling, Ostling Archery Co.

Date: 10 24 1966
Description: A man is spraying paint on the shaft of an arrow. A small child is watching. Caption reads: "GUSTOF OSTLING SPRAYS ON FIRM'S TRADEMARK. 'Helper' Is Grandda...
Photograph

Elof Elfstrom, Ostling Archery Co.

Date: 10 24 1966
Description: A man is standing and holding something in front of a machine. Caption reads: "ELOF ELFSTROM FEEDS NOCK MACHINE. He Designed Precision Device."
Photograph

Ann Elfstrom, Ostling Archery Co.

Date: 10 26 1966
Description: A woman is sitting at a machine where several arrow shafts are held in place. Caption reads: "ANN ELFSTROM FEATHERS THE SHAFTS. Fletching Wheel Is Exacting...

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