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Ole Emerson's Lumber Camp Bunkhouse

Date: 1902
Description: Lumbermen in their bunk house at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. Several of them have pipes in their mouths and their socks are hanging to dry.
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Children Eating at Kiddie Camp

Date: 07 09 1931
Description: Children eating at Kiddie Camp.
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Cabin Interior

Date: 1905
Description: Cabin interior.
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Cabin Interior with Fireplace

Date: 1905
Description: Interior of cabin with fireplace at one end of a long room.
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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,...
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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...
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Assembly Chamber before Restoration

Date: 1988
Description: Assembly Chamber, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, before restoration in 1988. Above the skylight can be seen long fluorescent light fixtures which are no l...
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Sigurd Olson at Listening Point

Date: 1981
Description: Iconic portrait of conservationist Sigurd Olson at his cabin at Listening Point. The Northland College environmental studies center is named in Olson's hon...
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Sig at the Shack

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Description: Sigurd F. Olson at the "shack" near his Ely home where he did most of his writing.
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Inside the Shack

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Description: Interior view of "the shack" behind his home where conservation advocate and writer Sigurd F. Olson wrote his books.
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White Birch Lodge Rustic Dining Room

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Description: View of the dining room in White Birch Lodge. The view features a stone fireplace and a table and chairs made of birch logs.
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White Birch Lodge Rustic Bedroom

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Description: View of a bedroom at White Birch Lodge. The room is furnished with a bed, dressing table, and chair made out of birch logs.
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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.
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Camp Lenoloc Gathering

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Description: Three girls sit in rocking chairs and on the ground in front of a stone fireplace at Camp Lenoloc. A model sailboat sits on the fireplace mantel and a pia...
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A Camp Cabin

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Description: A view of the cabin's interior with two twin-sized beds placed against the wall. The curtains to the windows are open. Suitcases sit at the bottom of each ...
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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...
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Fireplace at Hermit's Rest

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Description: View of the fireplace at Hermit's Rest, a structure built in 1914 at Grand Canyon National Park.
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Cabin Living Room

Date: 1936
Description: Living room of a northern Wisconsin resort in southwestern Bayfield County, possibly Haagensen's Lodge on Middle Eau Claire Lake.
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Lumberjacks in the Bunkhouse

Date: 1904
Description: Lumberjacks posing together in a bunkhouse at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. There are lanterns hanging from the ceiling. Two of the men are holding fiddles (v...
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Soldiers Washing Feet

Date: 1942
Description: Three soldiers from the 14th Infantry are sitting on a bench and washing their feet in their helmets in a wood cabin with a screen to the outside. One of t...

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