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Family Camping with International Pickup and Camper

Date: 1972
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family of four camping out with an International 1110 Custom pickup and Hy-Lander trailer home.
Photograph

Midget Football Team

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Group portrait of midget football team, the West End Tigers, coached by Truax Field Pvt. Ralph Deck, from Chattanooga Tennessee, with Junior Coaches Harold...
Photograph

Women Sitting In Park

Date: 1910
Description: View looking down hill towards two ladies sitting on a park bench. They are looking down the hill which is surrounded by trees, watching children playing n...
Photograph

Madison Summer Playground Activities

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri...
Photograph

Marathon County Park

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Marathon County Park. Many children are playing in the water surrounding a stone fountain, while others watch from the benches.
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Children at Happy Hearts Park

Date: 1925
Description: Children are sitting on benches looking at books, and other children are playing in a sandbox at Happy Hearts Park.
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Forest Park at Chautauqua Grounds

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Description: Children play in Forest Park at the Chautauqua Grounds, an institution founded in 1874. Residences can be seen beyond the playground at right. Caption read...
Photograph

Monona Lake Assembly

Date: 1886
Description: Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
Photograph

077 - Camper Working Outdoors on Pressing a Flower

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Description: A young camper is seated at an outdoor wood table arranging a flower on a sheet of paper. On the table near her are spread out all the supplies she is usin...
Historical Object

099 - Campers Participating in Dramatization

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs; there is an empty space where a third photograph was once included. The top photograph shows a ...
Photograph

Camping in Bradley Park

Date: 1936
Description: Two smiling men, one carrying long fishing poles and the other a set of paddles, are walking away from their campsites while two women are working at a pic...
Photograph

Scenes at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: A family picnic at Badger Park includes the Mulcahy, Solberg, O'Neil and Foley families. All of the families are from Shullsburg. One mother is placing a l...
Photograph

Seven Boys Seated on a Tree Limb

Date: 06 02 1959
Description: Seated on a large lower tree limb in Vilas Park are, left to right, Danny Tortorice, John Fasel, Frank Lawrence, Raymond Falci, Tom Fields, Mike Williams a...
Postcard

The Beach at Pinewood Lodge

Date: 08 16 1937
Description: Text on front reads: "The Beach, Pinewood Lodge - Rhinelander, Wis." Guests are enjoying the water in Lake Thompson at the Pinewood Lodge. There is a dock ...

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