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007 - Main Lodge

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Description: View over water of Main Lodge as seen from boat on bay. Original caption notes: "It fits well into the landscape and seems to have been there always. Forty...
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009 - Fireplace in Main Lodge

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Description: Interior view of stone fireplace area in the Main Lodge. Three campers are gathered around a record player, another is seated in a camp chair at the firepl...
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011 - Health Cabin

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Description: The health cabin located in a wooded setting. Original caption notes: "Here our medical counselor lives and keeps her equipment. In a separate room are two...
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013 - Indian Teepee on Shorefront

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Description: Exterior view of Indian tipi (teepee) with several campers sitting on the ground in front. Original caption notes: "One of the two attractive Indian tipis ...
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015 - Directors' Cabin

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Description: Exterior view of Directors' Cabin situated in wooded area, with a slope down to the lake on the right. Original caption notes that this cabin "also serves ...
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017 - Exterior of "Living Cabin" III

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Description: Exterior view of Cabin III situated in wooded area. Original caption notes that this was one of five "living cabins." The caption also notes: "These five l...
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018 - Exterior of "Living Cabin" II

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Description: Exterior view of Cabin II situated in wooded area. Original caption notes that this was one of five "living cabins." The caption also notes: "These five li...
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019 - Interior of "Living Cabin" IV

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Description: Interior view of several campers posing inside one of the "living cabins." One of the girls is sweeping the cabin floor. Original caption notes: "Note spac...
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020 - Another Interior of "Living Cabin" IV

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Description: Interior view of one of the "living cabins" with several campers relaxing on bunk beds. Original caption notes: "Note spaciousness, comfortable bunks, ampl...
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022 - Dining Porch

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Description: Interior view of the Dining Porch, which ran the entire length of the Main Lodge. View from porch is to the southeast, with a view of Lake Raymond (now kno...
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023 - Dining Porch at Mealtime

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Description: Interior view of campers and counselors eating on Dining Porch. Original caption notes: "Our dining Porch runs the whole length of the Main Lodge, and enjo...
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025 - Adirondack Lean-To with Campers

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Description: Exterior view of Adirondack Lean-to with several campers gathered around the stone fireplace. Some of the campers are holding or carrying an axe, a pocket ...
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027 - Library in Main Lodge

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Description: Interior view of library in Main Lodge. Two campers are seated at a table reading; another camper is browsing the shelves. Original caption notes: "In 1937...
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079 - Counselors and Campers Playing Musical Instruments

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Description: Group of counselors and campers playing musical instruments indoors. Included are several string instruments, a saxophone, recorder, and a piano. Two campe...
Historical Object

119 - Joy Camps Directors and Chief Whirling Thunder

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one photograph Barbara Ellen Joy, camp owner and co-director, cooks over a large grill are...
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134 - Barbara Ellen Joy Reading to Campers

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Description: Interior view of group near the Main Lodge fireplace, with Barbara Ellen Joy seated in a camp chair reading to a group of young campers. Numerous decorativ...
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135 - Cabin IV at Bedtime

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Description: Large group of campers outside their cabin, dressed in pajamas and bathrobes. Some of them are using dippers with metal pails; on the far left a row of dip...
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137 - Wartime Efforts at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo...
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Several Camp Scenes from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs. Includes one of the cabins (exterior view), Miss Rusty (one of the Joy Camps counselor...
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Scenes from Joy Camps, with Nametag

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs and name tags for clothing. Includes one of the cabins (exterior view), and some of Sue...

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