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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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Theater Guild Stage Hands

Date: 02 18 1948
Description: Four teenagers working backstage as apprentices for the Madison Theater Guild. Pictured from the left are: Eugene Van Hekle, Carol Cowan, Bob Hart, and Joa...
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La Verne Haak, Chairman of Madison Youth Council Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: La Verne Haak, chairman of the Madison Youth Council's second annual spring clean-up campaign, is shown with equipment to be used for the project. His tool...
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Students Learn to Bake

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Description: These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
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Cooking Class in the Kitchen

Date: 11 08 1984
Description: Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat).
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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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Milwaukee: Let's Keep It Clean

Date: 08 1967
Description: Mike Zitke, 14, of 4737 N. 78th Court holding a broom and wearing a shirt reading "We like it here. Milwaukee: Let's keep it clean." Zitke received the shi...
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Vocational Class

Date: 1978
Description: Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad...
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Two Indigenous Women

Date: 08 18 1943
Description: A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea...
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Beekeepers Standing in Apiary

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Description: A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker.
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Stone Picking Bee

Date: 06 1987
Description: The Wagner family and friends stage a stone picking bee on their farm.
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Woman and Girls with Beehive Frames

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Description: Group portrait of a woman and five young girls and teenagers each holding a frame from a beehive, full of bees.
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Cooking at the Camp

Date: 1909
Description: One of the boys watching as one of the men is cooking over the fire in "the kitchen" at their camp.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Breakfast on the Porch

Date: 1934
Description: The photographer's son, Herbert E. Brumder, enjoying breakfast on the east-facing screened porch of the family's summer home on Pine Lake. The family dog "...

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