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Camp Ground at Indian Hill Pageant — Highway 13

Date: 1930
Description: A smiling woman with a toddler looks out of the entrance to a birch wigwam. In the foreground is a campfire with cooking pots and pails. There is tent in t...
Photograph

School Picnic

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Students from the Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, roast marshmallows over a fire at Barett's Hill (spelled Barrett's on the revers...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

Date: 
Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 452-460

Date: 
Description: All the tribal affidavits came finger-lickin'
to pray against the rain
to tolerate a cast of wills and listen to the stories
from the Book of Comm...
Photograph

Man Cooking Over a Camp Fireplace

Date: 1930
Description: Man cooking over a camp fireplace in a wooded area.
Photograph

Men Preparing a Feast

Date: 08 28 1930
Description: Gathering of men at a “Shport [sic] Outing”. The men are standing around a barbecue pit, preparing a feast of fish and corn.
Map or Atlas

Fuller's Woods Map

Date: 
Description: A decorative map of Fuller's Woods development along the Lake Mendota shoreline. Includes numbered lots and building line setbacks with decorative features...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

013 - Indian Teepee on Shorefront

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Indian tipi (teepee) with several campers sitting on the ground in front. Original caption notes: "One of the two attractive Indian tipis ...
Postcard

Neal's Camp Somewhere in Michigan

Date: 02 14 1913
Description: View of a campsite with two tents. One man is kneeling near a campfire blowing smoke over a tent and a line of clothes. Two other men are sitting nearby.
Photograph

025 - Adirondack Lean-To with Campers

Date: 
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

Rosenberry Picnic

Date: 1913
Description: Marvin B. Rosenberry cooks over a campfire in a wooded area, while Katherine Landfair Rosenberry and Mary E. Smith stand behind him watching.
Photograph

Rotary Club Barbeque

Date: 1916
Description: Rotary Club barbeque along the Plover River at the campsite of Neal Brown. Several men gather around a barbeque pit where meat is being cooked on a rotisse...
Photograph

Rotisserie at Rotary Club Barbeque

Date: 1916
Description: Basting the meat on the rotisserie for the Rotary Club Barbeque held at the campsite of Neal Brown.
Photograph

Marvin B. Rosenberry Picnic

Date: 1913
Description: Marvin B. Rosenberry cooking over a campfire while a young woman, possibly his daughter (?), holding a bouquet of flowers watches.
Photograph

Picnic with the Rosenberrys

Date: 1913
Description: Mary E. Smith, Katherine Landfair Rosenberry, and possibly Marvin Rosenberry's daughter (?) sit in the grass having a picnic. Marvin Rosenberry stands near...
Photograph

American Legion Picnic in Ojibwa Roadside Park

Date: 1932
Description: A group of six men and three women are cooking over a smoky campfire at the Ojibwa Roadside Park.
Photograph

086 - Campers Cooking Over Open Fire

Date: 
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...
Photograph

088 - Campers Eating Camp Meal Near Campfire

Date: 
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Co. Card Front and Back

Date: 1894
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration titled: "Young Canada, 'I wonder what they are doing on the other side,'" and "Merry Christmas." A young boy wea...

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