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Raftsman's Series No. 1404; Laying Up For Wind And Drying Out

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Description: Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background.
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Picnic by the Water

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Description: Cars are parked on the right near the water. Two people are sitting at a picnic table near the shoreline, and a third person is holding a pot over a campfi...
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Sigurd Olson Contemplates the Wilderness

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Description: Sig Olson at a wilderness camping site, probably in the Quetico area.
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River Drivers Lunch

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Description: Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Underside of a Trestle Bridge

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Description: View through the support structure of a trestle bridge. On the shoreline in the background a woman, girl, and another person are standing around what appea...
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086 - Campers Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: Campers cooking over an open fire. In the foreground, one camper is kneeling on the ground, tending the fire. Two large metal pots hang from thin tree bran...
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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 ...
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132 - Camp Craft Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Original caption notes: "Scenes from camp craft activities during 1940..." (the remainder of t...
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Group at Apostle Island

Date: 1915
Description: View looking towards shoreline of three men and one woman setting up a fire on the rocks for a picnic. There is a picnic basket on the log on the right, an...
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Bear Island Picnic

Date: 1916
Description: Group of people at picnic on Bear Island.
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Bear Island Picnic

Date: 08 22 1916
Description: View along shoreline towards people at a Bear Island picnic. A man stands near the water, and two women and a another man are among the logs along the shor...
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Carson Gulley and Louie Shepard Cooking Out

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Description: Carson Gulley and Louie Shepard cooking out along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac.
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Drying Blankets

Date: 1911
Description: From L-R: Howard T. Greene, Bill Marr, and Doc Copeland holding a blanket over a campfire to dry it. The shoreline is on the right.
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Lunch by the Lake

Date: 07 27 1911
Description: The Gang eating their lunch by French Lake. Their canoes are pulled up on the shoreline.
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Island Camp

Date: 1911
Description: A view across Pickerel Lake of The Gang's camp on an island. There is a tent set up and smoke is wafting up from a campfire.
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Burntside Lake Campsite

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang at their camp in a shady spot by Burntside Lake. The canoes are in the water on the left.
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Splitting Wood

Date: 08 1911
Description: The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake.
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Making Chowder

Date: 08 1940
Description: Joe Norton, left, and his son Bud are tending a large pan of fish chowder cooking over the coals of a campfire on the shore of Green Lake. In the backgrou...
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Around the Fire

Date: 1940
Description: Boys are roasting weiners at a stone fire ring overlooking the Chippewa River in Brunet Island State Park. A man on the far right, behind trees, is walking...

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