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Girls in YWCA Camp Bunks

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Young girls posing on the top and bottom bunks at YWCA's Camparia Olbrich on Lake Mendota. In the upper bunk, left to right: Kathryn Eye, Barbara Fellows,...
Postcard

Young Men's Christian Association Camp

Date: 1905
Description: The villa at the Young Men's Christian Association Camp. A group of girls and boys are sitting on the lawn on the left and two more people are sitting on t...
Photograph

Boy Scout Troop 5

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scout Troop 5, with Scoutmaster J.J. Feeney and Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Lavin. Photograph was taken in front of their new ...
Photograph

Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Four girl scouts and a camp counselor starting a fire in a camp fireplace as they start to prepare dinner at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pi...
Photograph

Nordland Camp for Boys

Date: 1940
Description: A view of a cabin and the tent grounds of Nordland Camp for boys, operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi Organization. A f...
Photograph

Y.W.C.A. Camp

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Description: Four female campers stand and sit around a Y.W.C.A. camp cabin furnished with several beds and a dressing table.
Photograph

YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Fritz Ragatz (foreground) and (from left) Billy Garrott, Frank Kellogg, and Jack Kendall sitting in front of the fireplace in one of the cabins at YMCA's C...
Photograph

Log Cabins of the Great Outdoors Club

Date: 1935
Description: View from North Lake of log cabins low hillside among trees.
Photograph

Cottages of the Great Outdoors Club

Date: 1935
Description: View from North Lake of log cabins on top of low hill. A wooden set of stairs with a railing leads down to the shoreline.
Photograph

Rex Magnus Club Entertainment

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: Posed group portrait outdoors of members of the Rex Magnus Club and representatives of the “Press of the United States” whom they are entertaining.
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1898
Description: Front and back covers and menu page for the 29th annual banquet of the Old Settlers Club of Milwaukee County. Front cover includes a circular portrait of c...
Photograph

YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 05 31 1961
Description: Peggy Moore is shown with the new sign which will mark the entrance to the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich on Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Camp Kiwanis

Date: 1933
Description: Group portrait of Kiwanis Club members and several boys assembled in front of the Camp Kiwanis cabin in Lincoln Park. The boys may be part of Boy Scout Tro...
Photograph

Western Wisconsin Camp Association

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Description: Members of the Western Wisconsin Camp Association are gathered outside of a cabin sitting on benches.
Manuscript

Madison-Devil's Lake Youth Hostel Trails

Date: 06 1938
Description: Map showing major highways and trails from Madison to Devil's Lake for Neighborhood House American Youth Hostel group trips. Routes of four trips are drawn...

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