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About the Collection
The scrapbooks in this collection were created by members of Hoofers to document their organization. Through photographs, newsletters, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia, the scrapbooks detail the group’s outings and activities from the 1930s through the early 1960s.
Long a part of the unique atmosphere of the UW-Madison campus, Hoofers has grown to become one of the largest student outdoor recreation organizations in the country. The idea for Hoofers originated in the late 1920s, during a series of camping trips taken by Memorial Union Director Porter Butts and professor Harold “Doc” Bradley. In 1931, the two men collaborated with several UW students to make Hoofers a reality.
Hoofers was conceived of as a means of promoting outdoor recreation by providing access to a wide variety of activities. The early focus of the group was primarily on skiing, but they also sponsored hiking, camping, biking, and canoeing. Although it is a student organization, Hoofers membership has always been open to the larger community.
Over the years, the clubs and activities sponsored by Hoofers have changed numerous times. Currently, Hoofers has approximately 2,200 members in six clubs: Sailing, Ski and Snowboard, Riding, Mountaineering, Outing, and SCUBA.
For more information on Hoofers, visit their website: http://www.hoofers.org/xoops/
Or view a timeline of early Hoofers history at: http://archives.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/hoofers/1920.html
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Technical Note
Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):
- Hand-written texts;
- Texts that contain diacritics;
- Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
- Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
- Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.
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