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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | March 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising calendar for Osborne brand farm implements showing two young boys tending a pot hanging over an evening fire. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers. |
| Date: | May 15 1965 |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts cooking hotdogs over an open fire. The Great Blue Heron council weekend campout was held at Hartland Sportsman's Club grounds. |
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| Description: | Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster and January calendar for the Osborne disk harrow that "has long been the standard," featuring two boys cooking fish over a fire. I... |
| Date: | September 06 1988 |
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| Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are... |
| Date: | August 1927 |
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| Description: | Man tending to a campfire while a woman is preparing a meal on a picnic table by a tent. A car is parked next to the campsite and a dog is sniffing at a te... |
| Date: | May 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | October 10 1941 |
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| Description: | Eight Girl Scouts kneeling around a campfire inside a campfire ring at Camp Indianola. |
| Date: | August 29 1933 |
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| Description: | Kiddie Camp children around campfire, watching frankfurters roast in a pot over the fire, tended by Oswald B. Neesvig, president of Madison Packing Co. Mos... |
| Date: | September 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill. |
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| Description: | A wigwam covered with store canvas. This cyanotype image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first curator of photogr... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564. |
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