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Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
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Camp at Crooked Creek

Date: 06 03 1894
Description: Ten-year-old Fredrik, Jessie's brother William Daniel Turvill,and Reuben Gold Thwaites, have a meal at a campsite at Crooked Creek.
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Group of Men in Encampment

Date: 07 28 1881
Description: A group of men dressed in uniform gather near a fence in a shaded encampment. Several tents are visible in the background. Caption on back of stereograph r...
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Wintering in Florida

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Description: A man holds a gun while standing near a table in a campsite surrounded by palm trees. Caption reads: "Wintering in Florida."
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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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View from Kirkland Hotel

Date: 1922
Description: View of Devil's Lake from the shore of the Kirkland Hotel, located at the southeast corner of the lake. There is building, perhaps a boathouse, on the shor...
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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Lake Koshkonong at Burgy Mounds

Date: 1920
Description: View from shore of a group of men posing on a dock at Burgy Mounds on Lake Koshkonong. Boats are tied to the dock. There are a number of people in boats fa...
Postcard

Tourist Camp

Date: 1934
Description: Text on front reads: "Tourist Camp, Reedsburg Wis." View of a tourist camp in a wooded setting. There is a long picnic table in the center, a building in t...
Postcard

Postcard in View Folder

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Indian Camp Life." One of 16 postcard images inside of a souvenir view folder. Four Native American men are sitting on a bench on the right. T...

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