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Lumber Camp Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Group portrait of loggers and support staff in a lumber camp. In front (holding dog) is T.J. Thompson, a man that traveled using a sled pulled by his dog. ...
Photograph

Lumber Camp Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of loggers in a lumber camp. In front, seated on his sled, is T.J. Thompson. He traveled among the lumber camps between Winter and Raddison,...
Manuscript

Tansy Camp Fire Girls Album: Camp 1930

Date: 1930
Description: Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o...
Postcard

Main Building: Wisconsin State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger ...
Postcard

Neal's Camp Somewhere in Michigan

Date: 02 14 1913
Description: View of a campsite with two tents. One man is kneeling near a campfire blowing smoke over a tent and a line of clothes. Two other men are sitting nearby.
Postcard

Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake

Date: 12 01 1911
Description: An elevated view from hill of Pokegama Camp at Spider Lake. Caption reads: "Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake, Mercer, Wis."
Photograph

First Structure Built at Trout Lake

Date: 1910
Description: This building was used for cooking and eating. The clothesline on the left has clothes hanging on it. Neal Harrington has written on the postcard:

"Trout...

Photograph

The Shack

Date: 1910
Description: The annotation on the photograph says: "Another picture of the shack - blankets hanging out. Indian Al."

Another version of this photograph is annotated:...

Photograph

Planting Camp North End of Trout Lake

Date: 05 1911
Description: Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake.
Photograph

Camp 2

Date: 1912
Description: Probably a view of a ranger camp house. There is a ladder propped outside at the front, and there is a broken window with temporary board repairs. Two men ...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell in Necedah

Date: 
Description: A view of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Petenwell at Broadway and 42nd St.
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Entrance

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Description: A man stands in the entrance archway to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Petenwell.
Photograph

Camp Petenwell CCC Barracks "Where We Sleep"

Date: 
Description: View down a long room with beds lined up in rows along the sides for Civilian Conservation Corps members at Camp Petenwell. There is a woodburning stove in...
Photograph

Hunters on the Pond

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards a group of seven men posing on a dock in front of a small hunting shack in the middle of a marsh. Ducks hang on stringers attache...
Photograph

Camp Waucheta

Date: 06 1895
Description: View of Camp Waucheta, with a cabin on the left and a dog sitting in the grass in the foreground. There is a lake in the background on the right, with tree...
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Music by the Lake

Date: 1952
Description: The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi...
Photograph

Sugar Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the fram...
Postcard

White City

Date: 1908
Description: View along shoreline towards a campsite on the shores of the Chippewa River. People are in rowboats on the river. Caption reads: "White City, Eau Claire, W...
Postcard

Lodge at Racine Scout Camp

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Description: View towards a two-story log lodge. Caption reads: "Lodge at Racine Scout Camp, Elkhorn, Wis."
Photograph

Tourist Camp, Northern Wisconsin

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Description: View towards a tent pitched on bare ground among a grove of trees, behind a picnic table. A car is parked in the background.

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