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Jaws from Stone Pile

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Description: Jaws from Stone Pile. A girl is sitting in a canoe being held by a man who is standing on the shoreline.
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Ho-Chunk Man Paddling Canoe

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Description: Ho-Chunk man in a canoe on a river holding up an oar. Just out of frame on the left is a woman, who is perhaps holding a child.
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Scene on Red Cedar River

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Description: A group of youth sits on a shoreline along the Red Cedar River while others swim and boat. A stone structure stands in the center of the river and foreste...
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Bomb Simulation at East Washington Avenue Bridge

Date: 07 12 1954
Description: The East Washington Avenue bridge was chosen as the point where a simulated atom bomb struck Madison during a civil defense test, unbeknownst to four canoe...
Photograph

132 - Camp Craft Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Original caption notes: "Scenes from camp craft activities during 1940..." (the remainder of t...
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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 Beaver Point Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several camp photographs. Includes the "Riding Committee meeting" (including the Dalmatian "Lindy"), campers...
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Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial

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Description: Two young women, Annette Miner and Carolyn Young, are standing in water on a sand bar with a toy canoe floating nearby.
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Running Little Falls

Date: 1935
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards three young men in a canoe running the Little Falls rapids on the South Fork of the Flambeau River.

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