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Boy Scouts, Troop #24

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #24, Explorer Post from Nichols School, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park with Lake Monona in the background.
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West High School Baseball Players

Date: 04 01 1955
Description: Don Woody, catcher, and Dave Baskerville, batter, members of the West High School baseball team. There is a lake in the background.
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Southern Ten Conference Golf Champion

Date: 05 08 1948
Description: Wisconsin High School student Doug Campbell, wearing a letter sweater, is the medalist for the Southern 10 meets.
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Teen-Agers Skating

Date: 01 26 1949
Description: Winter scene with Dick Roberts and Mary Lita Jensen, West High School students (Madison, Wisconsin), ice skating.
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Boat Landing at Armson's Report — Lake Mason

Date: 1926
Description: View from shoreline of boat landing. A boy rows a boat nearby, and another boy fishes from a boat resting on the shoreline.
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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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Swimmers on a Pier

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Description: Large group of young women and girls lined up on a pier. A group of them are perched on a diving platform on the end. A man and woman are in a boat in fron...
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Pier at Brictson's Park

Date: 1925
Description: View from on a dock looking at a man and two boys sitting on the rock of the shore. Boats are tied to the dock.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Second Hostel Trip

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the Neighborhood House log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by the settlement house, with images of girls on their bikes and resting on a d...
Manuscript

Tansy Camp Fire Girls Album: Camp 1930

Date: 1930
Description: Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
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Speed Skating Champions

Date: 01 26 1958
Description: Group portrait of the 1958 city speed skating champions who won their races in the finals at Vilas Park.
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Kugler and The Gang

Date: 1914
Description: From left to right: Clay, Jack, and Edwin Kugler are next to a canoe on the shore of Pine Lake.
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The Boys Go Swimming

Date: 1916
Description: Jack and Russell Greene go swimming in the lake after setting up camp. There is a canoe in the foreground.
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Running Into the Lake

Date: 1916
Description: One of the Greene boys running into the lake.
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Carl in a Canoe

Date: 1911
Description: Young Carl paddling his canoe on the water. A tree-lined shore is in the background.
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Uprooted Tree

Date: 1911
Description: Carl Greene and Bill Marr posing and standing with their arms spread wide at the base of a large, uprooted tree at the shoreline. Their canoes are in the w...
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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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Bathing

Date: 1911
Description: Carl, and one of The Gang standing with a dog, are bathing in Sturgeon Lake. Another man is standing on the shore.

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