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Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

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Description: Colorized postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. Features a scene of men, women and children among picnic tables, automobiles. Tents are pi...
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 08 16 1935
Description: Photographic postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. A scene of picnic tables, automobiles and tents pitched among trees and grass. Text at ...
Photograph

Tourist Free Campground

Date: 1925
Description: 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 ...
Photograph

Free Tourist Park

Date: 1925
Description: 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...
Photograph

Tourist Camp Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Looking down from a hilltop of a car parked under a tree. The campground is populated with well-dressed families walking down a path, and their parked cars...
Manuscript

Frost's Woods Article

Date: 07 05 1928
Description: Article entitled "Several Indian Families Now Encamped at Frost's Woods, Ancient Camp Site" about Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians camping on the shores of Lak...
Photograph

Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
Photograph

Soldiers Build a Tent

Date: 1942
Description: Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry building a "wiki-up", or place to sleep while on patrol, in a jungle in Panama. One man has a cigarette in his mouth.
Photograph

Gallop Inn Resort on Elk Point

Date: 1931
Description: Men and women, some in bathing suits, pose in front of the Gallop Inn Resort restaurant.
Photograph

Camping Grounds at Gogebic Park

Date: 1936
Description: View of tents, benches, cars and trees at the camping grounds at Gogebic Park.
Map or Atlas

Drummond Recreation Area : 200 Lakes with Fish, 52 Miles of Trout Streams

Date: 1968
Description: The map shows fire towers, public camp grounds, roads, snow mobile & riding trails, trout lakes, foot trails, railroads, and National Forest boundaries.
Photograph

Camping Family with Travelette

Date: 1963
Description: A family camps alongside a body of water with an International Travelette.
Photograph

Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Five girls prepare a meal around a campfire at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA Teen Camp on the shore of Lake Mendota near Fox Bluff. Left to right are: Carol ...
Map or Atlas

Flambeau River State Forest

Date: 1958
Description: Includes images of Flambeau River State Forest and a description of, canoeing and recreational activities in, and general park and forest information about...
Photograph

Two Men in front of Tent

Date: 1935
Description: View of one man wearing a suit and tie sitting on a cot in front of a canvas tent. Another man wearing a dress shirt and tie is standing next to him in fro...
Photograph

Saskatchewan Family on Camping Trip

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor family photograph of a mother, father, daughter and two sons. They are standing in between a canvas tent and an automobile with a Saskatchewan lic...
Photograph

Oak Grave Camp

Date: 1929
Description: A man, woman, and child pose by a car near a tourist camping stop.
Photograph

Making Coffee

Date: 11 16 1925
Description: Abelessa, Chapuis and De Prorok make coffee.
Photograph

Five Men Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

Date: 
Description: View of five men standing outside holding full lines of fish they caught at Nature Lovers Paradise resort located on Jackson Lake. In the background are tw...
Document

M. Quinn Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M. Quinn, "Dealer in Pine Lands," with two men in front of a tent at a campsite, one of whom is cooking over a campfire and the other is sitt...

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