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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Four girl scouts and a camp counselor starting a fire in a camp fireplace as they start to prepare dinner at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pi...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Three girl scouts and the camp director chatting while sitting on a cot in a tent at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured left to right: Mar...
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Members of the Y-Teen group of the YWCA talk over summer camp plans with Patricia Powell, YWCA staff member who will be in charge of musical activities at ...
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Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Three campers stand near the lakeshore at the Girl Scouts play day at the Black Hawk Council's Camp Brandenburg. From left are: Judy Wrysinski of Mt. Horeb...
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Campers and staff sit by the water while sanding canoe paddles during the seventh and eighth grade Girl Scouts play day at the Black Hawk Council's Camp Br...
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Two campers working on a trail during the seventh and eighth grade Girl Scouts play day at the Black Hawk Council's Camp Brandenburg. Lois Lischeske of Mad...
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Two campers from Sun Prairie looking at a turtle found during the seventh and eighth grade Girl Scouts play day at the Black Hawk Council's Camp Brandenbur...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Three teenage swimmers lean on the edge of the pier at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA Teen Camp on the shore of Lake Mendota. The girls are, left to right: Bon...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Two campers at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA camp on the shore of Lake Mendota near Fox Bluff, sit on a log while making sketches. The girls are Susan Meyer (...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Three sailing enthusiasts at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA Teen Camp on the shore of Lake Mendota, sit in a sailboat. Sheila Owens, left, granddaughter of Mrs...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Evelyn Howe, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Herbert Marshall Howe, 2022 Chadbourne Avenue, practices archery at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA Teen Camp locate...
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Swimmers on the Pier at Camp

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored image of two swimmers sitting on a pier with their legs in the water at a camp in West Point sponsored by Neighborhood House. Several other sw...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Camp Fire Girls and Indian "Chief"

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored group portrait of Camp Fire girls and a man dressed in Ojibwa-style floral embroidered/beaded clothing and a Plains Indian feathered headdress...
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Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Archery Features

Date: 07 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images from an archery tournament at a summer camp for boys at Camp America Williams: a group of fin...
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Neighborhood House: Boys in Meal Line at Camp

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han...
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Neighborhood House: Boys at The Roost

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys getting ready for bed in a corner of The Roost in Piper's Woods (a 10 acre woods located a mile and a half past Forest Hill cemetery on the S...
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127 - A Snapshot of Cabin I, Joy Camps

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of older campers, with counselors, posed in front of a camp building. The girls in the front row are holding a sign that reads: "A S...
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130 - Joy Camps Staff

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Joy Camps staff (undated). Camp owner and co-director, Barbara Ellen Joy, is seated front row, third from the left, with co-direc...
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YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 05 31 1961
Description: Peggy Moore is shown with the new sign which will mark the entrance to the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich on Lake Mendota.

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