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Postcard

Postcard in View Folder

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Indian Camp Life." One of 16 postcard images inside of a souvenir view folder. Four Native American men are sitting on a bench on the right. T...
Book or Pamphlet

The Greenfield Trailer Camp Incident — Inside Pages

Date: 1949
Description: Inside pages with articles and photographs from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel.
Book or Pamphlet

The Greenfield Trailer Camp Incident — Cover and Back Pages

Date: 1949
Description: Front cover and back pages of brochure. Includes photographs and a political cartoon from the Milwaukee Journal.
Photograph

Camping at the Dells

Date: 1905
Description: Four young women are posing sitting on the ground in front of a large tent. One man is standing behind the women at left, while another is sitting on a tre...
Photograph

Laundry at "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc."

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Description: Laundry time at "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." Two women are doing the laundry at a "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." camp. Items are hanging on a clothesline behind ...
Photograph

"Jänta å ja" Camp at Livesey's Spring

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: Nineteen men and women are posing outdoors in front of tents in a forest clearing. At the bottom the caption reads: "Jänta å ja" Camp at Livesey's Spring, ...
Photograph

Summer School Camp

Date: 1955
Description: View down worn path towards several tents pitched on platforms along a slope. The caption on the back reads: "Tents for summer school students in the Eagle...
Photograph

Tourist Camp, Northern Wisconsin

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Description: View towards a tent pitched on bare ground among a grove of trees, behind a picnic table. A car is parked in the background.
Photograph

Small Child at Campsite

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Description: View towards a small child walking in the foreground, wearing a bonnet and striped overalls. In the background on the right near a wagon is a woman in a wh...
Photograph

Five Men at a Camp Site

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Description: Outdoor view towards five men posing kneeling in front of two tents.
Photograph

Three Women at a Campsite

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Description: View towards a woman standing and two women sitting, at a table under a canopy and in front of a tent at a camp site.
Photograph

Camping

Date: 07 1939
Description: Elevated view of two young women, wearing nearly identical bib overall-style playsuits, are standing posing holding stringers of pan fish. There are three ...
Photograph

Pan Fish

Date: 07 1939
Description: A young woman is standing and posing with a stringer of panfish in front of a car with a small travel trailer behind it. She is wearing a wide leg bib over...
Photograph

Building Spawning Boxes

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th...
Photograph

Camping on the Shore

Date: 
Description: View down slope towards a man sitting on the shore of a lake beneath a tree, near a rowboat. Another boat is pulled up on the shore nearby. In the backgrou...
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.
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Music by the Lake

Date: 1952
Description: The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi...
Photograph

Camp Petenwell Entrance

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

Nettland's Roll Inn on Highway 16 — "At the Dells"

Date: 1931
Description: View from side of road towards main building of Nettland's Roll Inn, with a service station, restaurant and registration office for their campsites. A grou...
Photograph

"Hoosier Lodge for Hoosier Hospitality" US Hwy 12

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Description: View down dirt road of the tourist camp with cottages. There is a building for men's and women's showers in the foreground, and a building marked "Toilet" ...

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