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Camp Auger-Eye Sep. 1910

Photograph
Five men relax on folding chairs (or a barrel) in front of a canvas tent. A woman stands off to the left. Pots hang in the trees at this rustic campsite that also includes a sturdy wooden table. Cloths drying on a line obscure words painted on the tent but "photo" can be read. This is a digital image transferred of the SDHC photo blog in March 2023
Camp Auger-Eye 96-1-70.jpg 1MB from Brady Postcard collection; Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02
Simonson - Crow family.png; from Jack Sheridan, via email, March 2023 screenshot, source unknown; from Jack Sheridan, via email, March 2023 BB-photoTent.jpg 713KB

2023.10.24

Digital scan

Simonson, Herman C. 1878-1951Simonson, Erma (Crow) 1884-1925

"The location is bordering the west side of the road [Park Street] somewhere between the Pumphouse museum and the Ox-bow property. The woman in the background left is Erma Crow Simonson, wife of Herman Simonson. I believe that the tent was an early photo studio open during the summer ca 1915. Possibly some of these people used it also for living quarters. The man on the left looks like Doc Heath but not sure. Herman's assistant, name of Olsen, might be next to him. Probably the camp name derives from the eyed auger tool. The photo itself can be identified by the printing style on the lower left, as a glass plate photo taken by Herman Simonson." - information via email from Jack Sheridan, March 2023

1880 Tourism steamship era -1930Camping Grounds

Winthers, Sally

031 A+B+C+D Photo Files

These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.

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