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011 - Health Cabin

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Description: The health cabin located in a wooded setting. Original caption notes: "Here our medical counselor lives and keeps her equipment. In a separate room are two...
Photograph

013 - Indian Teepee on Shorefront

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Description: Exterior view of Indian tipi (teepee) with several campers sitting on the ground in front. Original caption notes: "One of the two attractive Indian tipis ...
Photograph

015 - Directors' Cabin

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Description: Exterior view of Directors' Cabin situated in wooded area, with a slope down to the lake on the right. Original caption notes that this cabin "also serves ...
Photograph

017 - Exterior of "Living Cabin" III

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Description: Exterior view of Cabin III situated in wooded area. Original caption notes that this was one of five "living cabins." The caption also notes: "These five l...
Photograph

018 - Exterior of "Living Cabin" II

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Description: Exterior view of Cabin II situated in wooded area. Original caption notes that this was one of five "living cabins." The caption also notes: "These five li...
Postcard

Main Building: Wisconsin State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake

Date: 1912
Description: View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger ...
Postcard

Neal's Camp Somewhere in Michigan

Date: 02 14 1913
Description: View of a campsite with two tents. One man is kneeling near a campfire blowing smoke over a tent and a line of clothes. Two other men are sitting nearby.
Photograph

Camping Scene

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Description: Exterior view of four women and one man displaying a stringer of fish hanging on a bicycle.
Photograph

022 - Dining Porch

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Description: Interior view of the Dining Porch, which ran the entire length of the Main Lodge. View from porch is to the southeast, with a view of Lake Raymond (now kno...
Photograph

025 - Adirondack Lean-To with Campers

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Description: Exterior view of Adirondack Lean-to with several campers gathered around the stone fireplace. Some of the campers are holding or carrying an axe, a pocket ...
Photograph

First Structure Built at Trout Lake

Date: 1910
Description: This building was used for cooking and eating. The clothesline on the left has clothes hanging on it. Neal Harrington has written on the postcard:

"Trout...

Photograph

The Shack

Date: 1910
Description: The annotation on the photograph says: "Another picture of the shack - blankets hanging out. Indian Al."

Another version of this photograph is annotated:...

Photograph

Eagle Scout Forestry Camp 25th Anniversary Marker

Date: 1954
Description: Ten men are standing in a row in front of a sign marking the 25th anniversary of the Eagle Scout Forestry Camp. They are each holding an Eagle Scout trophy...
Photograph

Planting Camp North End of Trout Lake

Date: 05 1911
Description: Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake.
Photograph

Camp 2

Date: 1912
Description: Probably a view of a ranger camp house. There is a ladder propped outside at the front, and there is a broken window with temporary board repairs. Two men ...
Historical Object

119 - Joy Camps Directors and Chief Whirling Thunder

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one photograph Barbara Ellen Joy, camp owner and co-director, cooks over a large grill are...
Historical Object

135 - Cabin IV at Bedtime

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Description: Large group of campers outside their cabin, dressed in pajamas and bathrobes. Some of them are using dippers with metal pails; on the far left a row of dip...
Historical Object

137 - Wartime Efforts at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell in Necedah

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Description: A view of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Petenwell at Broadway and 42nd St.
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Entrance

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Description: A man stands in the entrance archway to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Petenwell.

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