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Swimming Race at Camp Wakanda

Date: 1923
Description: Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda.
Book or Pamphlet

Playground of Wisconsin's Northwoods Pamphlet

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season.
Photograph

Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Billy Wiedenbeck pushing Wally Britton into the water from a swimming platform.
Photograph

Children Standing on Pier

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Description: A group of children, possibly J. Robert Taylor's sons and daughters, playing on a pier. Three of the children are lined up in diving poses getting ready to...
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...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Pajama Race Swimmer

Date: 07 1942
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House of a boys summer camp, with an image of Skip Sul?(obscured letters) participating in a game involving tak...
Photograph

Howard White Thunder — Winnebago Indian Guide — At The Dells

Date: 1929
Description: View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He...
Postcard

Boat Landing, Schliewert's Island

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Description: Colorized postcard view over water towards boats and boaters at a resort. In the background are people and boats near a pier. The resort is among trees on ...
Photograph

045 - Joy Camps Boat Fleet

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Description: View from shoreline from pier of campers in boats on the water. Rowing crews and kayaks are in the foreground. Original caption notes that this image offer...
Photograph

054 - Young Girl Floating in Water

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Description: Young girl in bathing suit and swim cap floating in the water atop an inflated, plastic floating device. A wood pier is in the right foreground. Original c...
Historical Object

091 - Four Scenes from Joy Camps Waterfront

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. At the top left is a birch bark canoe on a covered stand with paddles on racks. At upper right...
Historical Object

093 - Joy Camps Water Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. On the left is a Snipe setting sail with a camper and Miss Camp aboard. The top middle photogr...
Historical Object

115 - Younger Campers at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs of younger campers. In one photograph campers are standing on a dock near two boats. In two pho...
Photograph

142 - Swimming Class at Joy Camps

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Description: Water scene, with many campers in swimsuits lined up on a dock, some standing, some sitting. A number of campers are also in the water, wearing swim caps. ...
Photograph

147 - Camper in Paddle Boat

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Description: A camper in swimming suit and swim cap sits in a small paddle boat operating the paddles by hand. In the near background is a dock, and several campers are...
Photograph

151 - Young Swimmer Sitting on Dock

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Description: Close-up of a young camper sitting on a dock wearing a swimming suit, and holding a floating device shaped like a fish or seahorse. She has her hair in two...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Beaver Point Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs of a trip to Beaver Point. Includes campers packing a canoe alongside a dock, campers s...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Kaubashine Creek Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs from Kaubashine Creek trip. Includes campers in boats near a dock, and water and wooded...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Beaver Point Trip and Other Scenes

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several photographs of Joy Camps activities. Includesa young camper with a hatchet and piece of wood; two ca...
Photograph

Lake Geneva

Date: 08 2013
Description: View down pier towards yacht named "Louise" tied up to a post. The yacht is used to take tourists around the lake.

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