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Hope Corners

Date: 10 23 1934
Description: Hope Corners with sign for "Hope Tourist Camp: Groceries, Cabins, Garage" featuring Standard Service, Red Crown Gasoline, Quaker State Oil & Penzoil. 3737 ...
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Children Meet the Milkman

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Description: A group of children gather around a milk truck as the milkman emerges with bottles of milk.
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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Central Wisconsin Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A central Wisconsin labor camp consisting of a row of wooden framed building with asphalt siding which housed migrant laborers. At the center, three childr...
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Lake Kegonsa Log Cabins — Highway 51

Date: 1930
Description: View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar...
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087 - Campers Climbing into Truck with Canoes on Top

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Description: A camper is climbing a short ladder into the back of a Dodge truck where other campers are seated. Another camper waits in line, with a camp counselor look...
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Joy Camps Lake Katherine Trip

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying three photographs from the Lake Katherine trip. Includes photographs of campers seated in the back of a tru...
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Two Boys Carrying Water

Date: 1935
Description: One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "You can't get wat...
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Funeral of Donald Henry Koenen

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "At the funeral of Donald Henry Koenen, 4, of South Range, Wis., son of Henry Koenen, on June 22. Picture shows the crowd comi...
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Camp Nine Mile

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. There are buildings to the left and right of the road, and trees are in the backgroun...

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