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Ottawa Park Tourist Camp
April 13, 1925
View down dirt road of people standing beneath the trees at Ottawa Park Tourist Camp. Automobiles are parked in the background, and tents are set up throughout the clearing.
Olin Park Tourist Camp
1925
The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
Children in Park with Swimming Area
June 1925
Children dressed in bathing suits at a small park with a swimming place. A garden is in the foreground.
Free Tourist Park
1925
The entrance to the Carthwaite Park tourist camp and picnic grounds. There is a sign for a filling station 1 mile ahead. A car is parked inside the grounds.
Tourist Free Campground
1925
An information station advertising: free camping, with hot sandwiches and coffee, and tents and cots for sale. On a utility line pole, there are signs for the "free camp drive-in." Two men and a ca...
Campsite with Fire
August 1927
Man tending to a campfire while a woman is preparing a meal on a picnic table by a tent. A car is parked next to the campsite and a dog is sniffing at a tent stake. The photograph was taken for Int...
