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Spring Formal at Indianola

Date: 05 16 1936
Description: Group portrait of Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority with dates at spring formal in lodge building at Camp Indianola.
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Kiddie Kamp Koncert Characters from Mother Goose

Date: 06 18 1934
Description: Howard Hoesly, Nancy Truog, Winston Sala, Arlene Herrick, Tim Harrington dressed as Mother Goose characters for the Kiddie Kamp Koncert at the Madison Woma...
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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp...
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Lunch at Kiddie Camp

Date: 07 17 1933
Description: Children sitting at a table and having lunch at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp.
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Pre-Camp Physical

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Doctor John E. Gonce examining a child's throat while other children wait in line, in order to go to "The Capital Times" Kiddie Camp.
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David Barr

Date: 06 29 1933
Description: Portrait of David Barr, son of University of Wisconsin Tent Colony Mayor Glenn Barr, at age 10 months, standing beside a chair. Family from Miami Universit...
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Children Eating at Kiddie Camp

Date: 07 09 1931
Description: Children eating at Kiddie Camp.
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Girls in YWCA Camp Bunks

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Young girls posing on the top and bottom bunks at YWCA's Camparia Olbrich on Lake Mendota. In the upper bunk, left to right: Kathryn Eye, Barbara Fellows,...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Four girl scouts and a camp counselor starting a fire in a camp fireplace as they start to prepare dinner at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pi...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Three girl scouts and the camp director chatting while sitting on a cot in a tent at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured left to right: Mar...
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 18 1946
Description: A woman and child cooking on a small gas stove in a tent at the University of Wisconsin tent colony, also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of L...
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Group Portrait of Summer Camp Attendees in Germany

Date: 1937
Description: Group portrait of summer camp, attended by Ruth Hirschhahn (half-sister of Eva Deutschkron); Krummhubel, Germany.
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Refugees Learning Hebrew at a Displaced Persons Camp

Date: 08 18 1946
Description: Refugee children learning Hebrew at a displaced persons camp school; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holo...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Three members of the camp advisory committee of the Community Welfare Council, sponsor of Madison's first Camp Week, look at literature and materials displ...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Members of the Y-Teen group of the YWCA talk over summer camp plans with Patricia Powell, YWCA staff member who will be in charge of musical activities at ...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Five youth from the East Side Youth Activities Center make posters for the contest being held in connection with Madison Camp Week. The girls in the pictur...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Four Girl Scouts and Brownies register for summer camps with Mrs. Mary Grindrod, a member of the scout staff. The girls are, from left: Roxie Ann Bjelde, B...
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YWCA Camp for Working Girls

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Four young working women who plan to attend the YWCA camp for working girls on Lake Mendota 12 miles from the Capitol are pictured, left to right, with a s...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Looking at scrapbooks of Camp Wawbeek are four pupils who attend the special orthopedic department at the Washington school in Madison. Camp Wawbeek, locat...
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YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 04 1953
Description: A scene from YWCA's day camp at Camp Wakonda, located on a shore of Lake Mendota. During craft time, Gerald Peck, James Foster, and Russell Bright paint sm...

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