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Photograph

Group at Apostle Island

Date: 1915
Description: View looking towards shoreline of three men and one woman setting up a fire on the rocks for a picnic. There is a picnic basket on the log on the right, an...
Photograph

Bear Island Picnic

Date: 1916
Description: Group of people at picnic on Bear Island.
Photograph

Bear Island Picnic

Date: 08 22 1916
Description: View along shoreline towards people at a Bear Island picnic. A man stands near the water, and two women and a another man are among the logs along the shor...
Painting

Melting the Pitch

Date: 
Description: An Ojibwa man and woman melt pitch in a pot over an open fire in a forest. The pitch will be used to seal a canoe that they're making.
Photograph

Chippewa Woman Cooking Bear Meat

Date: 1907
Description: Chippewa woman standing outdoors stirring one of three pots suspended over an open fire.
Photograph

Sue Ann Hackett on Outdoor Camping Trip

Date: 1950
Description: Sue Ann Hackett kneeling and holding a tin cup on an outdoor camping trip. There is a tarp in the foreground with dishes and food containers. Birch trees a...
Painting

Wisconsin the Beautiful

Date: 1910
Description: Watercolor design for a conservation poster made by a Wisconsin high school student as part of a competition. The poster has an image of pine trees in a me...
Photograph

Man and Woman with 100 Pickup

Date: 1973
Description: A man and woman are eating in front of a campfire. A red 100 pickup is parked on the left. In the background is a tent. The campsite is set up on the shore...
Photograph

Carson Gulley and Louie Shepard Cooking Out

Date: 
Description: Carson Gulley and Louie Shepard cooking out along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac.
Map or Atlas

Amérique ou Nouveau Continent Dressée sur les Nouvelles Rélations Découvertes et Observations

Date: 1759
Description: Map of North and South America showing regions, colonies, cities and settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Near the bottom left an inset ma...
Historical Object

Scene on Thermoplastic Case

Date: 
Description: Scene on thermoplastic case.
Drawing

Deer Hunting Scene

Date: 11 1963
Description: In the woods, a man is cooking over a campfire, while a deer carcass is hanging from the branch of a tree. Sid's poem accompanying the image in the newspap...
Photograph

House at St. John's

Date: 1907
Description: View of a house and yard. There is laundry hanging out to dry and, in the foreground, a cooking pot over a fire.
Photograph

Drying Blankets

Date: 1911
Description: From L-R: Howard T. Greene, Bill Marr, and Doc Copeland holding a blanket over a campfire to dry it. The shoreline is on the right.
Photograph

Lunch by the Lake

Date: 07 27 1911
Description: The Gang eating their lunch by French Lake. Their canoes are pulled up on the shoreline.
Photograph

Island Camp

Date: 1911
Description: A view across Pickerel Lake of The Gang's camp on an island. There is a tent set up and smoke is wafting up from a campfire.
Photograph

Drying the Blankets

Date: 1911
Description: Clay Judson (in the foreground) and Doc Copeland hanging up blankets to dry after a rain shower.
Photograph

Canadian Rangers' Camp

Date: 1911
Description: Two Canadian Rangers eating a meal by the campfire at their camp on Eden Island by Quetico Lake.
Photograph

Burntside Lake Campsite

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang at their camp in a shady spot by Burntside Lake. The canoes are in the water on the left.
Photograph

Cooking at the Camp

Date: 1909
Description: One of the boys watching as one of the men is cooking over the fire in "the kitchen" at their camp.

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