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Production of Maple Syrup

Date: 1927
Description: Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin.
Print

Hard Times Have Had a Dreary Stay

Date: 1932
Description: Holiday card of a hobo in a jacket and hat seated in front of a campfire, warming his hands. His bundle of belongings is on a stick by his side. His footpr...
Photograph

Sawing Logs

Date: 01 1928
Description: Two men use a crosscut saw to cut a hemlock log while a third watches. A splitting maul and a splitting wedge rest on a tree stump in the foreground. Smoke...
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

088 - Campers Eating Camp Meal Near Campfire

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Description: Group of campers under trees near a lake eating from metal dishes next to a campfire. A few of the campers are relaxing, and some appear to be washing the ...
Historical Object

107 - Outdoor Cooking Methods

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Each photograph depicts cooking at a campfire, with meat cooking on wood spits, atop a metal s...
Photograph

Camp 4

Date: 1909
Description: Charles is sitting near the table at the fourth camp of the trip. In from of him is either a blazing campfire or photographic light fog on the negative of ...
Photograph

Winter Solstice Bonfire

Date: 12 07 2014
Description: James Danky dressed in thick boots, a coat, gloves and hat, prods at a large fire with a rake. Several large twigs, sticks, and branches provide fuel for t...
Photograph

Girl Scout Camp

Date: 09 12 1938
Description: Four large canvas tents form a semicircle in an open wooded area near a lake. Girls Scouts, some in uniforms and other in casual summer attire, are posing ...
Photograph

Camp Supper

Date: 06 1938
Description: Three men are preparing supper over a small campfire at the edge of a wooded area. At right, two men are tending to food cooking in frying pans, while the ...
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Belgian Refugees Brewing Coffee in the Morning

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees making coffee in the refugee camp every morning, with their children sitting on their laps.
Photograph

Shading the Camera in the Woods

Date: 1921
Description: With her face partially shaded by a hat, Jeannette Holt is holding a cast iron frying pan sideways to shade the camera as a young man, sitting at the base ...

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