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Historical Essay

Joy Camps - Image Gallery Essay

Wisconsin's Camp Craft Camp for Girls, 1930-1955
This gallery shares more than 100 images from a northern Wisconsin summer camp for girls that operated between 1930 and 1955.
Postcard

"The Narrows" Trout Lake

Date: 08 05 1916
Description: View across water of The Narrows in Trout Lake. There are people in a canoe out on the lake. Caption reads: "'The Narrows' Trout Lake, Wood Cliff, Wis."
Photograph

072 - Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Scene from pageant, with many campers in costume acting out the story of Paul Bunyan. The group is posed sitting and standing outdoors in a sunny, grassy a...
Photograph

073 - Cast of Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Chevrons and Logo

Date: 1950
Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album, displaying chevrons earned at camp, and the Joy Camps logo. Three different chevrons are included, a single, a double...
Photograph

Sue Ann Hackett in Daniel Boone Costume

Date: 1950
Description: Sue Ann Hackett standing outdoors in her first-prize Daniel Boone costume, along with badge prize attached to her belt. Sue Ann is holding a sign on a stic...
Photograph

Campers at Campfire

Date: 1950
Description: Margo Pirie and Sue Ann Hackett on an outdoor camping trip. They are seated near a campfire with a tent in the background.
Photograph

Sue Ann Hackett on Outdoor Camping Trip

Date: 1950
Description: Sue Ann Hackett kneeling and holding a tin cup on an outdoor camping trip. There is a tarp in the foreground with dishes and food containers. Birch trees a...
Photograph

Taking a Fish off the Hook

Date: 1950
Description: Close-up of a young girl wearing a bandana on her head sitting in a boat and removing a fish she has caught from the hook. Another girl is behind her holdi...
Postcard

Northern Wisconsin Pine Forest

Date: 1909
Description: View up a dirt path leading through a pine forest. Caption reads: "Northern Wisconsin Pine Forest, Near Hazelhurst, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Map of Hazelhurst

Date: 1982
Description: A map of the Hazelhurst quadrangle annotated with railroad information.
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood-Holiday Cabin
Reference Number: 103726
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood-Spruce Inn
Reference Number: 103737
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood
Reference Number: 103739
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood-Lakeview Cabin
Reference Number: 103743
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood
Reference Number: 103753
Property Record

6119 COUNTY HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood-Pines Cabin
Reference Number: 103756
Property Record

LOWER KAUBASHINE RD

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Keith's Cliff-Birchwood Cabin
Reference Number: 103851
Property Record

6119 HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood Lodge
Reference Number: 107690
Property Record

6119 HIGHWAY Y

Community: Hazelhurst
County: Oneida
Historic Name: Birchwood Lodge
Reference Number: 107692

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