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Studio Portrait with Painted River Scene

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Description: A studio portrait of a girl and a boy in a river scene painted on a backdrop. The girl wears a dress and hat and rests a hand on an oar and holds the boy's...
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Syl Sawing Wood

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Description: Syl sawing wood from the hull of an overturned rowboat on a small sawhorse. Behind him is a deck overhanging a steep cliff with a river or lake below. A ho...
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057 - Page from Joy Camps Album Displaying Boats

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs with caption. The larger photograph shows two of the camp's Skip-Jack boats, each with a camper ...
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062 - Page from Joy Camps Album with Campers Fishing

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs of campers fishing. Upper left photograph is an elevated view of several campers in a boat fish...
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063 - Young Campers Fishing in Boats

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. The left one is a view over water towards two young campers fishing in a rowboat. The right one...
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111 - Camp Pioneers of Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. Young campers are participating in a number of activities, including tennis, seesawing, boatin...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Fishing at Black Point

Date: 1910
Description: Henry Bartholomay Jr., right, and his son Henry Conrad Bartholomay fish on the pier at Black Point. The steamer Loreley is anchored offshore on he l...
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Laurie Peterson Telling Fish Story to his Cousins

Date: 1922
Description: View towards Laurie Peterson sitting on a boat pulled up on the shore, gesturing with his hands spread apart, telling a story to his two cousins, Alton and...
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Champion

Date: 1931
Description: Herbert E. Brumder, son of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on the deck of his sailboat holding the Pine Lake Yacht Club championship trop...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1933
Description: Three young men are working on a racing sailboat which is flying a P.L.Y.C. (Pine Lake Yachting Club) pennant. Other boats are moored alongside.
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1922
Description: An unidentified young woman, left, is holding Barbara Brumder on her lap in the stern of a sailboat. A second young woman is holding a sheet (rope) with as...

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