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Chautauqua Meeting

Date: 1906
Description: Families gathered in front of large tents at a Chautauqua meeting.
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Family Camping

Date: 1890
Description: A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ...
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Family Camping Trip in Mountain Field

Date: 1977
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family setting up a tent in mountain field near a small lake. An International Traveler pickup with simulated vinyl roof,...
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Camp Tent

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Description: Man, woman and two children putting up a tent by some trees.
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Camp on the Youghiogheny River

Date: 05 06 1894
Description: Setting up camp on a bank of the Youghiogheny River. William Turville holds a canvas bag of bedding, while Jessie hands her son Fredrik a satchel from the ...
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Family Gathered Outside of Tent

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Description: Three women, a man and several children pose outside of two large tents.
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Camping Trip

Date: 1907
Description: Group portrait during camping trip. Otto Lindner is holding the coffee pot.
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Family Portrait by Tent

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Description: Family posed in front of a camping tent. Identified in front row: Ellen Taylor Higgins, J. Robert Taylor, Louis Otto Stauff, and an unknown woman. Back r...
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Generational Family Portrait

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Description: Five adults and one child pose outside in what appears to be a park, with two tents in the background.
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Syl and Pa Lighting Fireworks

Date: 07 04 1901
Description: Syl and Pa, both wearing hats, sit on a lawn lighting fireworks. There is a tent or open-sided awning behind them among trees.
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Group Posing in Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Family portrait of a large group of people posed on a lawn. In the background is a tent or open-sided awning. Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat a eyeglasses, i...
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Algeria Father and Son

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front cutting his young son's hair in a tent. Behind him is a group of men.
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Camping Family with Travelette

Date: 1963
Description: A family camps alongside a body of water with an International Travelette.
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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C.R. Monroe and N.L. Ellis

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Description: Three photographer's wagons, two owned by C.R. Monroe and the other by N.L. Ellis, in front of tents in the countryside. Two men and a woman are posing sta...
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Saskatchewan Family on Camping Trip

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor family photograph of a mother, father, daughter and two sons. They are standing in between a canvas tent and an automobile with a Saskatchewan lic...
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Camping

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Description: Elevated view of a family at "Midwaters Campground" at Hiawatha National Forest. The campsite is complete with tents, picnic tables, hanging blankets and t...
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Cooking on Mirro Cookset while Camping

Date: 08 01 1967
Description: Donald Soehnlein took this photograph while on vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains, near Lola, Montana. It depicts his wife Nina and son James cleaning up...
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Army Brothers

Date: 1943
Description: A rickety ladder serves (Sergeant) Technician 4th Grade John Duray (left), and his brother, Staff Sergeant Isador Duray, both of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the...
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Twins at Lister Bag

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Twin soldiers, Corporal John Kellner (left) and Private First Class Bob Kellner (right) of Milwaukee get a drink at the lister bag, in the camp on Goodenou...

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