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Chicago Traveling Club at McBride's Point

Date: 07 1875
Description: Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ...
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Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Walter Ladwig of Juda (left) and Oscar Wold of Hillsboro reading The "Wisconsin State Journal" between sessions at the annual University of Wisconsin's Far...
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Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee

Date: 02 20 1960
Description: A Madison couple, Karen and Larry Slotta, solved the babysitting problem at the Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. They put their 7 1/2 mon...
Historical Object

109 - Various Scenes Joy Camps

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying seven photographs. Scenes depicted: canoes and campers on a lake; campers on a wooden footbridge; campers cookin...
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Family Enjoying a Picnic

Date: 1897
Description: The Meinhardt family assembled for a picnic in their garden. A river or lake is in the far background. The table is set with china and flatware. Among the ...
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Man and Woman with 100 Pickup

Date: 1973
Description: A man and woman are eating in front of a campfire. A red 100 pickup is parked on the left. In the background is a tent. The campsite is set up on the shore...
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Laundry in the Lake

Date: 1914
Description: Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland.
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Lunch by the Lake

Date: 07 27 1911
Description: The Gang eating their lunch by French Lake. Their canoes are pulled up on the shoreline.
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Dining by Pickerel Lake

Date: 1911
Description: Two of The Gang eating a meal on the shore of Lake Pickerel. One of them is sitting on a large rock. There is a dog standing between rocks on the right.
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Lunch Stop at Sand Point

Date: 1910
Description: The Gang stopping at Sand Point for a lunch break. The canoes are at the edge of the shoreline, while everyone is sitting on the ground eating. The canoe o...
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Cooking on a Campfire

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Description: Three men are sitting around a campfire cooking meat and hash on iron skillets. There are trees and a lake in the background.
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Camping on Star Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View down slope towards a green tent pitched on a hill overlooking Star Lake. A man is cooking on a grill near the tent.
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Making Chowder

Date: 08 1940
Description: Joe Norton, left, and his son Bud are tending a large pan of fish chowder cooking over the coals of a campfire on the shore of Green Lake. In the backgrou...
Postcard

Indian and His Home

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Description: An Ojibwa man and his wigwam near a lake. Caption reads: "Indian and His Home at Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. Kingsbury, Antigo."
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...
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City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman Ivan Nestingen, Alderman Archie Simonson, and Alderman Paul Lorenz sharing a joke while holding plates of food at the Borchers Beach summer home o...
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Tub Race

Date: 09 02 1913
Description: Sitting in galvanized wash tubs with their legs in the water, three girls are ready for the race on Archibald Lake. Jeannette Holt is in the middle, flanke...
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Holts and Garrisons Roasting Corn

Date: 1922
Description: A group of Holts and Garrisons are roasting corn around a smoking campfire on the Island, with Archibald Lake in the background. W.A. Holt is on the far le...
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Boats Heading Out

Date: 1916
Description: Three boats, each filled with people, are leaving the pier. Two household employees, wearing aprons and standing on the pier, are watching the boats depart...

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