Deer Camp: Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, About 1899

The title on this stereograph card tells the whole story: “In a camp of deer hunters. Two in and two more coming.”

It was photographed and published by H. H. Bennett of Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, around 1899 — deer camp as it looked more than 125 years ago. The season then meant a tent, a rifle, and meat for the winter.

Deer camp traditions run deep in Wisconsin, and this card is a look at where they start: hunters in camp, more on the way in, in the last years of the nineteenth century.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-93334

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