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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.
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Weiner Roast at Kiddie Camp

Date: 08 29 1933
Description: Kiddie Camp children around campfire, watching frankfurters roast in a pot over the fire, tended by Oswald B. Neesvig, president of Madison Packing Co. Mos...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Picnic by the Water

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Description: Cars are parked on the right near the water. Two people are sitting at a picnic table near the shoreline, and a third person is holding a pot over a campfi...
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Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.
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Camp at Crooked Creek

Date: 06 03 1894
Description: Ten-year-old Fredrik, Jessie's brother William Daniel Turvill,and Reuben Gold Thwaites, have a meal at a campsite at Crooked Creek.
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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Boy Scouts Klondike Derby

Date: 01 13 1952
Description: Three boy scouts prepare soup over a campfire during the Boy Scout Klondike Derby at Glenway Golf Course.
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River Drivers Lunch

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Description: Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ...
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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German-American Wurst Roast

Date: 1913
Description: The Benedict Goldenberger family enjoying a wurst roast in the Madison vicinity. Ben Goldenberger is the leftmost standing man, he was a cooper and vinegar...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Algerian Drinking Tea

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front drinking tea outside a cave. He is sitting on a large boulder with his gun across his lap. In front of ...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: K.P. Buchholtz serves his four children hamburgers cooked on an outdoor grill. They are, from left, Kay, 9; Emily, 7; Paula, 4; and Louis, 3.
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Making Coffee

Date: 11 16 1925
Description: Abelessa, Chapuis and De Prorok make coffee.
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M. Quinn Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M. Quinn, "Dealer in Pine Lands," with two men in front of a tent at a campsite, one of whom is cooking over a campfire and the other is sitt...
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Picnic, Flag and Automobile

Date: 1920
Description: A group of men and women sit on the ground as they enjoy a picnic, eating and drinking. A dog is lying on the picnic blanket. An automobile with a flag mou...
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Killing Hogs

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

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

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Students from the Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, roast marshmallows over a fire at Barett's Hill (spelled Barrett's on the revers...

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