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Olin Day Camp Activities

Date: 07 15 1958
Description: Instructor Jean Loy watches Mark Anderson touch a match to some wood for a bonfire.
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Olin Day Camp Activities

Date: 07 15 1958
Description: David Lehman, with a clothespin in his mouth, shows Sue Ann White and Linda Anderson how to hang a lunch up away from ants.
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Olin Day Camp Activities

Date: 07 15 1958
Description: Camp director Jo Mancuso shows Jeff Anderson, Ann Grosse, and Charles Starr how to tie a "clove hitch" knot at the Olin day camp.
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Olin Day Camp Activities

Date: 07 15 1958
Description: A group of kids admire a mushroom that Francis Burns found on a log at the Olin day camp.
Book or Pamphlet

Family Standing Outside of Tent

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "Wisconsin colonis...
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Aerial View of Palmer

Date: 06 1935
Description: Aerial view of. Original caption on AP print reads: "Matanuska Valley, Alaska, Sept. 15--Twentieth Century Pioneers--Breaking a wilderness to the purposes ...
Photograph

Group of Children at Camp Number 5

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of children sitting on a stack of logs. One of the children is holding a cat. Taken at Colony, Camp Number 5. Cabins are in the background. ...
Photograph

Camp #8

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Wives of Alaskan Pioneers Kept Busy Sewing, Making Tent Homes Neat and Clean." Original caption reads: "... a row of...
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Making a Stoneboat for Hauling Water

Date: 1935
Description: Three men are kneeling on the ground working with a saw. The men are wearing hats with mosquito nets on them. Mountains are in the background. Caption with...
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Funeral of Donald Henry Koenen

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "At the funeral of Donald Henry Koenen, 4, of South Range, Wis., son of Henry Koenen, on June 22. Picture shows the crowd comi...
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Cottage of Harry Nichols

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "The cottage of Harry Nichols, completed only a few weeks before the picture was snapped, quickly took on an appearance of domestic ...
Photograph

Camp Kiwanis

Date: 1933
Description: Group portrait of Kiwanis Club members and several boys assembled in front of the Camp Kiwanis cabin in Lincoln Park. The boys may be part of Boy Scout Tro...
Photograph

Civilian Conservation Corps 660th Company State Forestry S-79

Date: 
Description: Camp Mercer sign spelled out with stones on a small, built-up hill. Camp buildings and parked cars are in the background.
Photograph

Camp Nine Mile

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. There are buildings to the left and right of the road, and trees are in the backgroun...
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

The Beach, Audubon Camp

Date: 06 24 1964
Description: Text on front reads: "The Beach, Audubon Camp. Sarona, Wis." A view of a wooden dock and lake from the shore. Three people are in a canoe, with a floating ...
Postcard

Audubon Camp

Date: 06 07 1966
Description: Text on front reads: "Audubon Camp, Sarona, Wis." A view of the headquarters buildings, house on the left, parked cars on the right, barn in the background...
Postcard

Cottage St. Evangelical Camp Grounds

Date: 05 21 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Cottage St. Evangelical Camp Grounds, Lomira, Wis." A row of cottages with porches at a church camp. The area in front of the cottage...
Postcard

Tent Street Evangelical Camp Grounds

Date: 1916
Description: Text on front reads: "Tent St. Evangelical Camp Grounds, Lomira, Wis." A man is standing in a wooded area with rows of tents on the right and left. Two cam...
Postcard

Tabernacle, Evangelical Camp Grounds

Date: 08 13 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Tabernacle, Evangelical Camp Grounds, Lomira, Wis." Adults and children pose in front of the Tabernacle at the Evangelical Camp Groun...

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