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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Boy Scouts of America Troop 76 posing for a group photograph at the Big Pines Boy Scout Camp before readying to leave for home. The group is split into two rows; the front row kneels and the back row stands. Nine people kneel in the front row, including: H. H. West (leftmost, front row), H. H. West, Jr. (4th from the left, front row) and Dudley Nichols (6th from the left, front row). Eighteen boys stand in the back row, including: Ed Saxton (leftmost, back row) and Frank Willis (6th from left, back row). The group poses for the photograph in a wintry landscape. Trees occupy the background behind them on the right and it appears that Jackson Lake may be behind them on the left. Text from negative sleeve: 233 Big Pines Boy Scout Camp, winter 1934. Lined up at noon waiting for door to open to dining room. View of the camp among the trees in the hills. Tractor clearing the snow off Jackson Lake so scouts and others can skate. Putting on skates and skaters on the lake. Troop 76 BSA at the camp ready to leave for home. L to R: ["XXXX" crossed out] [handwritten:] Frank Willis, Dudley Nichols, H.H.West Jr Frank Willis it is. Boy in rear unknown. 6 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000233_005 ark:/21198/zz002hpxs6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Guides & scouts--California Camps--California--Big Pines Camp West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998 Boy Scouts of America West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958 Nichols, James Dudley 1919-1994 Willis, Frank Saxton, Ed
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