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Joy Camps Scenes

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several scenes. Includes photographs of a girl near a bridge with rapids, campers canoeing, a lineup of som...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Beaver Point Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several camp photographs. Includes the "Riding Committee meeting" (including the Dalmatian "Lindy"), campers...
Photograph

International Scout Double Shot

Date: 1975
Description: Two images of the same International Scout with camping and canoeing images. One shows the Scout driving up a hill kicking up dirt, the other shows the sam...
Photograph

1911 Flood

Date: 10 1911
Description: View towards river with high water flooding over several buildings behind a group of people in the foreground. Identified as the flood of the Black River i...
Postcard

Pecatonica River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view looking up the Pecatonica River. Caption reads: "Pecatonica River, Darlington, Wis."
Postcard

Scene on Pecatonica River

Date: 1910
Description: View of two women canoeing on the Pecatonica River. There are two more people in a boat in the background on the right. Caption reads: "Scene on Pecatonica...
Photograph

Man in a Canoe

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Description: A man is sitting in the back of a canoe or rowboat holding a paddle in the water by his side. The canoe or rowboat also has oars in oarlocks. On the far sh...
Photograph

Canoe on Sawhorses in a Yard

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Description: A canoe on wooden sawhorses is near a stack of firewood near a fence. In the background is a house and outbuildings in a yard.
Photograph

Canoe in a Yard

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Description: View from above, from a roof or balcony, of a canoe on sawhorses near firewood stacked in a yard near a fence. Two buildings are in the yard.
Photograph

Man and Child with a Canoe

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Description: Portrait of a man standing behind a canoe next to a small child sitting on top of it. Behind the canoe is stacked fuelwood and a building.
Photograph

Two Men and a Canoe

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Description: Two men are tipping a canoe on a shoreline.
Photograph

Five Boys in a Canoe

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Description: View across water towards five boys sitting in a canoe on the water. The far shoreline is in the background.
Postcard

View of "The Hemlock"

Date: 1905
Description: View across lawn towards main lodge and cabins at the Hemlock Resort on the east shore of Catfish Lake, STH 70, east of Eagle River. Caption reads: "View o...
Photograph

Canoeing Scene

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Description: View from shoreline towards two people in a canoe on a river. There is a building on the far shoreline.
Painting

Forming the Bow or Stem

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Description: An Indian man sits in front of a dwelling forming a bow or stem for a canoe that he's making. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu).
Painting

Completed Bow or Stem

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Description: An Ojibwa man shows a completed bow or stem for a canoe that he's constructing. Behind the man is a wigwam (or wetu).
Painting

Whittling Strips for Sides

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Description: An Ojibwa Indian whittles strips of wood for the sides of a canoe under construction. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu).
Painting

Cutting Cedar For Ribs

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Description: An Ojibwa Indian man is splitting cedar wood to make ribs for the canoe he's constructing.
Painting

Homeward Bound

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Description: An Ojibwa man and woman prepare to transport rolled bark back to their home to use in the construction of a canoe.
Painting

Tying With Wigub

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Description: An Ojibwa man sits on the ground tying cedar materials with wigub as a woman looks on. The cedar will be used in the construction of a canoe.

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