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Barbara Birge Camp Wyonegonic photo album, summer 1924, and accompanying materials : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 1680
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Birge, Barbara, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maine--Photographs.
- Maine.
- Camps.
- Outdoor recreation.
- Ponds.
- Camps for girls.
- Northeastern States.
- Genre:
- photograph albums.
- Photographs.
- Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Schimmel purchased the album and accompanying materials from DeWolfe & Wood, Alfred, Maine, in 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 1 album (41 leaves) : illustrations ; 27 x 35 cm + 1 swimming certificate +1 booklet + 3 newsletters (each 1 folded sheet) + 2 photographs + 1 sheet + 1 application for camp membership for the year 1927 + 4 lyric sheets.
- Production:
- [Maine], 1924.
- Other Title:
- Cover title : Camp Wyonegonic
- Page [1] : Camp memorabilia
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Biography/History:
- Barbara Birge was a camper at Camp Wyonegonic. She was in her late teens or age 20 the summer of 1924.
- Summary:
- Album with photographs of camp life, camp ephemera including songs, and handwritten entries from summer 1924 at Camp Wyonegonic, an all-girls summer camp.
- Notes:
- Pictorial cloth binding with two braided cords through spine.
- Cited as:
- Barbara Birge Camp Wyonegonic photo album and accompanying materials, 1924-27 (Ms. Coll. 1680). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1533176772
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