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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 22 1952
Description: Campers Marilyn Homes, left, and Patricia Brown, right, learn to read a sundial at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp.
Photograph

Brownie Day Camp

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: Barbara Arnett, Oregon, pours a cup of cold water for Mary Ellen Jordan, Waunakee, at the "cup tree," used at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp to store campe...
Photograph

Brownie Day Camp

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: A school bus driver and three campers are standing next to the bus which transports campers to and from the Brownie Day Camp at Hoyt Park. Left to right: S...
Photograph

Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 21 1952
Description: Sisters Christine and Karen Nielsen make yarn rope during craft time at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp.
Photograph

Chippewa Blueberry Pickers

Date: 1910
Description: Men, women and children holding boxes and pails in the forest. Original caption reads: "VI Drive to W.S.; Chippewa blueberry pickers." The photograph is pa...
Photograph

Convict Camp

Date: 1920
Description: A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels.
Photograph

Ottawa Park Tourist Camp

Date: 04 13 1925
Description: View down dirt road of people standing beneath the trees at Ottawa Park Tourist Camp. Automobiles are parked in the background, and tents are set up throug...
Photograph

YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: A scene from YMCA's day camp at Camp Wakanda, located on the shore of Lake Mendota. Archery counselor, William A. Galster, checks arrows on a target with ...
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

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Description: Colorized postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. Features a scene of men, women and children among picnic tables, automobiles. Tents are pi...
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 08 16 1935
Description: Photographic postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. A scene of picnic tables, automobiles and tents pitched among trees and grass. Text at ...
Postcard

Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowish

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Description: Colorized postcard of Boulder Lake. Pine trees are in the foreground and islands are below in the background. Caption reads: "Boulder Lake at Camp Manitowi...
Postcard

Tourist Camp

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Bruce Tourist Camp. A dirt road curves into the camp, with a large sign at the entrance, and cabins, picnic tables and ma...
Postcard

Wonderspot Cabins

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: Photographic postcard view of two cabins surrounded by a lawn and trees at the Wonderspot Resort. Caption reads: "Wonderspot Cabins, Bruce, Wis."
Photograph

Hunting Camp in the Woods

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Description: About a dozen men stand in the woods by a large tent. The carcass of a deer is hanging from one of the trees. A horse stands nearby. There are some traces ...
Photograph

The Landing at Minokemeg Camp

Date: 1938
Description: View from pier of group of children and a man on the sandy shore of Buffalo Lake.
Photograph

Parade Grounds at Camp Delta

Date: 1938
Description: Landscaped grounds under large white pine trees in the foreground, buildings in the background. A man is walking along the stone-lined road on the left, an...
Photograph

Free Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: The entrance to the Carthwaite Park tourist camp and picnic grounds. There is a sign for a filling station 1 mile ahead. A car is parked inside the grounds...
Photograph

Tourist Camp Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Looking down from a hilltop of a car parked under a tree. The campground is populated with well-dressed families walking down a path, and their parked cars...
Photograph

Whip-Poor-Will Camp

Date: 1937
Description: View from water of cabins and boats near shoreline of inland lake.
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...

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