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Girl Scouts Around a Camp Fire

Date: 10 10 1941
Description: Eight Girl Scouts kneeling around a campfire inside a campfire ring at Camp Indianola.
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Girl Scouts at Camp Indianola

Date: 10 10 1941
Description: Eight Girl Scouts are standing on and near a tree at the edge of Lake Mendota, with the Madison skyline in the background at Camp Indianola.
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Boy at Bat

Date: 06 20 1963
Description: Helmeted boy swings a bat at city of Brown Deer's recreation department baseball camp.
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.
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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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Charles "Chick" Lowe Receiving Award

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila...
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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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Girl Scout Camps

Date: 07 10 1951
Description: A scene at Brownie Day Camp at Hoyt or Burrows Park. Three Brownie Girl Scouts are hanging their "nosebag" lunches on a line. Left to right are: Mary Groth...
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: A school bus driver and three campers are standing next to the bus which transports campers to and from the Brownie Day Camp at Hoyt Park. Left to right: S...
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Jump River CCC Clerks with Trophies

Date: 1935
Description: Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Camp Fire Girls and Indian "Chief"

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress...
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Camp Hiwela Staff

Date: 1950
Description: Three rows of women are posing outdoors for a group portrait. They are wearing uniforms for a Camp Hiwela.
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Girl Scout Camp

Date: 09 12 1938
Description: Four large canvas tents form a semicircle in an open wooded area near a lake. Girls Scouts, some in uniforms and other in casual summer attire, are posing ...
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First Lesson in Wrestling

Date: 1936
Description: Text on front reads: "First Lesson in Wrestling, Camp Highlands, on Plum Lake, Sayner, Wisconsin." A teacher begins a class in wrestling with a group of st...

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