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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Logging crew posed in snow at a logging camp.
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Family Gathered Outside of Tent

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Description: Three women, a man and several children pose outside of two large tents.
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Group Gathered at Campsite

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Description: A group of men, women and children, as well as a horse, gather outside of two tents at a campsite. The photograph appears to have been taken from inside on...
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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...
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Chautauqua Grounds

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men and girls stand in front of a large tent at Chautauqua Grounds, an establishment founded in 1874. The girls hold a sign that reads, "J.F. Eg...
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Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
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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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Camping

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Description: Elevated view of a family at "Midwaters Campground" at Hiawatha National Forest. The campsite is complete with tents, picnic tables, hanging blankets and t...
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Migrant Worker Housing

Date: 1969
Description: A migrant worker family stands in front of a parked vehicle and a cabin that serves as temporary housing in a Wautoma labor camp. Some of the children are ...

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