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Group portrait of teenage girls in the Hawaiian Delegation at the Y-Teens Summer Conference at Asilomar in June 1951. Four of the girls are holding ukuleles and there is a large bunch of feathers at the knees of the 2nd girl from the left in the first row. Their clothing looks like a cross between a Japanese kimono and the Hawaiian holoku dress and the fabrics are all colorful prints. They are sitting or standing in a small grove of Monterey Pine trees. Handwritten on verso: "Hawaiian Delegation Asilomar Y-Teen Summer Conference June 1951. Picture # 1440 by Steve Crouch. P.O. Box 2085 Carmel, California. Telephone Carmel 7-6176. Please give credit on publication. Please mention Asilomar in caption." 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. 1951-06 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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