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Y.M.C.A. Camp

Date: 1914
Description: The Young Men's Christian Association Camp. A man is sitting on the lawn near a small bridge on the left. In the background along the right are buildings. ...
Photograph

Pickering Camp

Date: 1920
Description: View across water towards the C.R. Pickering Camp on Mill Creek, in summer. The shelter is on a hill overlooking the pond.
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Pickering Camp

Date: 1920
Description: C.R. Pickering Camp on Mill Creek, in winter with snow on the ground. On the opposite shoreline is a shelter on the hill overlooking the creek, with a set ...
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Technical Service Team at Camp Interstate

Date: 1936
Description: An outdoor portrait of the Technical Service Team at Camp Interstate. From left to right are Kunsman, Hollister, Podolske, Preston, Greaves, Hurd, Solberg,...
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Hallelujah Campgrounds

Date: 1925
Description: A view of the 7-acre Hallelujah Campground which was located at the corner of Janesville Street and South Perry Parkway in the Village of Oregon. According...
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Camp In The Woods

Date: 11 11 1907
Description: This view, captioned "Founders Day," shows several people camping in the woods. A tent is visible in the background.
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Portrait of Jackie Melamedik

Date: 1948
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel's nephew, Jackie Melamedik (her sister Marim's son); Farenwald Displaced Persons camp, Germany. He was the only other member of her famil...
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Camp Kennington Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of the harbor at Camp Kennington with boats pulled onto the shore of a small inlet, part of Lake Sebago. Caption reads: "The Harbor, Camp Ken...
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Nazi Youth Camp

Date: 1945
Description: Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946.
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Northland Camp for Boys

Date: 1940
Description: A view of a Northland Camp building from across Lake Iliff. The camp was operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi Organizati...
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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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Nordland Camp for Boys

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of the raising of the flag on tent grounds at Nordland Camp for boys, operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi...
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."
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Jump River CCC Clerks with Trophies

Date: 1935
Description: Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro...
Postcard

Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Camp Fire Girls and Indian "Chief"

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Features

Date: 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Archery Features

Date: 07 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images from an archery tournament at a summer camp for boys at Camp America Williams: a group of fin...
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Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Pat McCann

Date: 07 1942
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Pat McCann, the last shooter in an archery tournament held at a boys summer camp, drawing the bow a...

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