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Family Camping

Date: 1890
Description: A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ...
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Campsite with Fire

Date: 08 1927
Description: 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 te...
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Boy Scouts, Troop #45

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Cook Out

Date: 09 07 1963
Description: Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill.
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International Travelall

Date: 1971
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family enjoying a campfire near their Travelall 1010 truck and Mallard camper. The father of the family strums his guitar...
Book or Pamphlet

International Travelall Tow Wagons

Date: 1971
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International Travelall tow wagons with the slogan: "Get away from it all." Features color photograph of a campi...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Cooking Fish

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a group of people cooking over an open fire at a campsite. One man is blowing the fire underneath a kettle, while two other men look on. A ...
Photograph

Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.
Book or Pamphlet

Camping in the Rain

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of a tent stretched between two trees and a fire with cookware in the rain.
Photograph

Camp at Crooked Creek

Date: 06 03 1894
Description: Ten-year-old Fredrik, Jessie's brother William Daniel Turvill,and Reuben Gold Thwaites, have a meal at a campsite at Crooked Creek.
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Men around Campfire

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of three men crowd around a campfire before much of the festival audience arrives. A large pile of firewood is on the left next to them. In the bac...
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African-Americans In Camp Area

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A crowd of African-American men standing and sitting in the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival before most of the audience arrives.
Photograph

Setting Up Camp

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Three people set up a tent and campfire in the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival while the stage and other amenities are still under construct...
Photograph

Sigurd Olson Contemplates the Wilderness

Date: 
Description: Sig Olson at a wilderness camping site, probably in the Quetico area.
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Fixing Dinner at Camp

Date: 
Description: View of four girls fixing dinner over a campfire. Two pots hang from a spit over the fire and a girl carries an armful of logs. Behind them, a tent can be ...
Document

M. Quinn Letterhead

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Camping

Date: 1960
Description: A campsite at Hiawatha National Forest. Men and women sits at a picnic table, while children sit by the campfire.
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Camping

Date: 1960
Description: Three men holding archery equipment at a campsite in Hiawatha National Forest.
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Group of Men Near Tents

Date: 
Description: Six men posing standing around two tables next to two tents. In the foreground is a stovepipe coming out of the ground.
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Campfire Cooking

Date: 1910
Description: Franklin E. Bump, brother-in-law of Dr. Smith, and one of his children cooking on a fire pit in front of their campsite. The campsite is situated in the wo...

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