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Outdoor Cooking for a Picnic

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Description: Outdoor view towards a man leaning over a campfire, with a group of men sitting at a picnic table in the background.
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2nd Wisconsin, Company C

Date: 1862
Description: Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J...
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Covered Wigwam

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Description: A wigwam covered with store canvas. This cyanotype image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first curator of photogr...
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Small Cabins

Date: 1934
Description: View of seven small cabins around a clearing where there is an American flag on a flag pole and two benches around a stone fire pit. In the foreground is a...
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Cooking on a Campfire

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Description: Three men are sitting around a campfire cooking meat and hash on iron skillets. There are trees and a lake in the background.
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Camp Ground at Indian Hill Pageant — Highway 13

Date: 1930
Description: A smiling woman with a toddler looks out of the entrance to a birch wigwam. In the foreground is a campfire with cooking pots and pails. There is tent in t...
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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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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction which is near Minocqua. The group is standing in front of a wigwam, and a woman in the r...
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Cooking Maple Sap

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Description: Two men are cooking maple sap over a wood burning cauldron in a clearing. One man is feeding the fire with logs while the other man is pouring in the sap. ...
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Cook Out

Date: 09 07 1963
Description: Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill.
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Joe Makes Lunch

Date: 1916
Description: Joe Paris making drop cakes for lunch at The Gang's camp.
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On the Flambeau River

Date: 07 1937
Description: View across water towards a shoreline where men and boys are gathered on the bank of the Flambeau River, with several canoes and rowboats pulled up to the ...
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Klondike Flapjacks

Date: 05 1968
Description: A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p...
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Hotdog Cookout

Date: 05 15 1965
Description: Girl Scouts cooking hotdogs over an open fire. The Great Blue Heron council weekend campout was held at Hartland Sportsman's Club grounds.
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Family Camping Trip

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #45

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Group of Men Near Tents

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Description: Six men posing standing around two tables next to two tents. In the foreground is a stovepipe coming out of the ground.
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Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.

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