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Joy Camps Lower Kaubashine Canoe Trip

Date: 
Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several scenes from a canoe trip on the Lower Kaubashine Creek. Includes photographs of Joy Camps canoes on...
Photograph

Betty Bishop and Wallace

Date: 1913
Description: Two people sitting on a boat. Identified on back as Betty Bishop and Wallace? Wallace is wearing a baseball mitt on his left hand.
Photograph

Yahara River Spillway at Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: View across pond towards three boys standing on the board walkway of the spillway at Lake Mendota and the Yahara River. In the background is the far shorel...
Photograph

Rain Gear

Date: 1911
Description: A young man wearing rain gear standing by a canoe and boxes of supplies.
Photograph

Yahara River

Date: 03 27 1937
Description: View across water towards a well-dressed man and woman posing in front of a car while another man takes their photograph. A woman and young girl are lookin...
Photograph

Smelt Rigging

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view from shoreline towards a boy using a single paddle to propel a small rowboat on the Sheboygan River. There are five rigs set up along the sho...
Postcard

De Pere, Wisconsin, Home of Miss America

Date: 1973
Description: View towards the shoreline of a river, with three boys sitting on the bank in the foreground. There is a building among trees on the opposite shoreline. An...
Photograph

First Fishing

Date: 1951
Description: First fishing near Vilas Park on Murphy's Creek (now known as Wingra Creek.) Many people are set up to fish on both sides of the tree-lined banks.
Photograph

He's Got One

Date: 1950
Description: A group of people are fishing on a shoreline of rocks and logs. One man with a bamboo fishing pole is pulling a fish from the water.
Photograph

Kite Ice Skating

Date: 1933
Description: Philip George Brumder, wearing knickers, a long belted jacket and ice skates, is holding a large kite while skating on Pine Lake.

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