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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

052 - Young Women in Bathing Suits Posing on Dock

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Description: Large group portrait over water towards campers and counselors posed in two rows along a pier. They are all wearing swimming suits, and some wear swimming ...
Photograph

074 - Camp Counselor Reading to Four Young Campers Outdoors

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Description: A camp counselor, seated in an Adirondack chair, wearing a white shirt, dark shorts, and saddle shoes, reads to four young campers who are gathered around ...
Historical Object

109 - Various Scenes Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying seven photographs. Scenes depicted: canoes and campers on a lake; campers on a wooden footbridge; campers cookin...
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

138 - First Aid and Water Safety at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. Two of the photographs show campers and counselors working in resuscitation classes along the...
Photograph

145 - Rowboat with Camp Counselor and Camper

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Description: Close-up of a camp counselor and young camper in a rowboat on the water. They are looking at each other and smiling. Both are wearing white shirts and dark...
Historical Object

Several Camp Scenes from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs. Includes one of the cabins (exterior view), Miss Rusty (one of the Joy Camps counselor...
Historical Object

Sue Ann Hackett with Friends

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs. Includes dock on lake, with distant shoreline, Sue Ann with a friend and her mother, o...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Group Portraits

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying two group portraits. One is of Cabin I in 1950 and the other is of the camp counselors in 1951. They are po...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Beaver Point Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs of a trip to Beaver Point. Includes campers packing a canoe alongside a dock, campers s...
Historical Object

Camp Craft at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying scenes of Joy Camps camp craft activities during Beaver Point trip. Includes fires and lashings, campers ea...
Historical Object

More Scenes from Lake Katherine Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying three photographs from the Lake Katherine trip. Includes campers grouped around a campsite, some sitting in...
Historical Object

More Scenes from Joy Camps Lower Kaubashine Canoe Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several scenes from canoe trip. Includes photographs of campers at a campfire with a tent in the background...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Counselor "Miss Rusty"

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several photographs of Joy Camps counselor "Miss Rusty." Includes Miss Rusty handling the net on a tennis co...

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