Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-17 of 17

Photograph

Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
Photograph

Killing Hogs

Date: 
Description: Rheinhardt Schmidt, August Krueger, Alex Goetsch, and Fred Hannaman standing in front of farm buildings, next to hogs hanging from a tree.
Photograph

Group of Men Near Tents

Date: 
Description: Six men posing standing around two tables next to two tents. In the foreground is a stovepipe coming out of the ground.
Photograph

Man Cooking Over a Camp Fireplace

Date: 1930
Description: Man cooking over a camp fireplace in a wooded area.
Photograph

Campfire Cooking

Date: 1910
Description: Franklin E. Bump, brother-in-law of Dr. Smith, and one of his children cooking on a fire pit in front of their campsite. The campsite is situated in the wo...
Photograph

086 - Campers Cooking Over Open Fire

Date: 
Description: Campers cooking over an open fire. In the foreground, one camper is kneeling on the ground, tending the fire. Two large metal pots hang from thin tree bran...
Photograph

088 - Campers Eating Camp Meal Near Campfire

Date: 
Description: Group of campers under trees near a lake eating from metal dishes next to a campfire. A few of the campers are relaxing, and some appear to be washing the ...
Historical Object

107 - Outdoor Cooking Methods

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Each photograph depicts cooking at a campfire, with meat cooking on wood spits, atop a metal s...
Photograph

Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: As part of a emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruction at Franklin Field, Eldred Heiser ladles soup from a large kettle to Isabelle Hy...
Historical Object

Camp Craft at Joy Camps

Date: 
Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying scenes of Joy Camps camp craft activities during Beaver Point trip. Includes fires and lashings, campers ea...
Photograph

Making Coffee at Camp

Date: 
Description: View of a man kneeling by a kettle over a campfire. Identified as camping at Perry Creek.
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

Splitting Wood

Date: 08 1911
Description: The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake.
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.
Photograph

On the Flambeau River

Date: 07 1937
Description: View across water towards a shoreline where men and boys are gathered on the bank of the Flambeau River, with several canoes and rowboats pulled up to the ...
Photograph

Bavarians Grilling Sausages

Date: 
Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Grilling sausages over an open fire.
Photograph

Deer Friend

Date: 1950
Description: A deer is standing next to a man as he is boiling maple sap over a fire pit in the woods at Blue Farm. Steam and smoke are rising up into the air. On the r...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: