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Large group portrait of teenage girls at Asilomar in 1952 for the Y-Teens Conference. 2nd Row from top: 13 from left Nancy Daubert 14 Mary Hule (both are from Morgan Hill. 3rd Row 2nd from right Muriel Waltz, Teen Age Director, San Jose 9 and 10 from left Yvonne Barcus - Campbell Mary Golen - Sunnyvale. Charlotte Huber, Carolyn Fry (both are from Campbell) Mercedes Portal - Santa Clara. Some of the girls in the first two rows are wearing a cross between a Japanese kimon and a Hawaiian holoku dress. Handwritten on verso: "Asilomar Conference - 1952. Y-Teens. 2nd Row from top: 13 from left Nancy Daubert 14 Mary Hule <bracket indicates both are from Morgan Hill>. 3rd Row 2nd from right Muriel Waltz, Teen Age Director, San Jose 9 and 10 from left Yvonne Barcus - Campbell Mary Golen - Sunnyvale. Charlotte Huber, Carolyn Fry. <bracket indicates both are from Campbell> Mercedes Portal - Santa Clara. Type written - Picture # 1800 by Steve Crouch. P.O. Box 2085 Carmel, California. Telephone Carmel 7-6176. Please give credit on publication." Asilomar was built to be a permanent conference site for the national YWCA association. It was designed by Julia Morgan who was hired by Phoebe Apperson Hearst. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground:The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p. 20. 1952 Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
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